politics Quotes

“Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

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“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

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“to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day...”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.”

― George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

“Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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