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~ An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. ~

~ A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten. ~

David Mamet

~ By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science. ~

Jacob Bronowski

~ Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. ~

Mohandas Gandhi

~ Politics is the art of the possible. ~

Otto Von Bismarck

~ University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ~

Henry Kissinger

~ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ~

Henry Adams

~ There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money ... and I can't remember what the other one is. ~

F. PAUL WILSON

~ Politics ... regarded as the study and pursuit of the true, enduring good of a community, as the application of great and unchangeable principles to public affairs, is a noble sphere of thought and action; but politics, in its common sense, or considered as the invention of temporary shifts, as the playing of a subtle game, as the tactics of party for gaining power and the spoils of office, and for elevating one set of men above another, is a paltry and debasing concern. ~

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

~ Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly. ~

FULKE GREVILLE

~ In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. ~

Winston Churchill

~ Politics have no relation to morals. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ You can't leave politics out of anything that emanates from Washington, D.C., ~

Ralph Hall

~ In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere. . . . Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions. ~

Marianne Williamson

~ Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Without alienation, there can be no politics. ~

Arthur Miller

~ Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. ~

John Kenneth Galbraith

~ Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. ~

Elsa Schiaparelli

~ In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope? ~

Barack Obama

~ I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics. ~

Barack Obama

~ So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ~

Mark Poster

~ The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ~

Reinhold Niebuhr

~ We of the genus Homo ride the logs that float down the Round river, and by a little judicious "burling" we have learned to guide their direction and speed. This feat entitles us to the specific appellation sapiens. The technique of burling is called economics, the remembering of old routes is called in history, the selection of new ones is called statesmanship, the conversation about oncoming rifles and rapids is called politics. Some of the crew aspire to burl not only their own blogs, but the whole flotilla as well. This collective bargaining with nature is called national planning. ~

Aldo Leopold

~ After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains. ~

Walt Whitman

~ I have to say that I dont find South Park very funny. Its not the politics. I always saw it as stoner animation and it just left me cold. ~

Ted Rall

~ In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other. ~

Mark Twain

~ In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. ~

Carl Sagan

~ Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, our religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. ~

NEIL POSTMAN

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