You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!

Charles de Coster

Tags: hypocrisy rulers governments politicians poltics



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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your thinking is in harmony, and no longer in conflict, with your feelings … when you let yourself be guided by the thoughts of great sages and no longer by the crimes of great warriors … when you pay the men and women who teach your children better than the politicians; when truths inspire you and empty formulas repel you; when you communicate with your fellow workers in foreign countries directly, and no longer through diplomats...

Wilhelm Reich

Tags: life money love freedom teachers opinion security beethoven politicians workers bach diplomats



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["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

Arthur C. Clarke

Tags: fear politics science-fiction danger politicians star-trek



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The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

Andrew Vachss

Tags: vote voting politicians



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Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

Peggy Noonan

Tags: politicians



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[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry Truman

Tags: power democracy funny elections government president political-science politics-observation politicians democrats republicans democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics



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Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.

Sonia Rumzi

Tags: politics evil greed politicians



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Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!

Lyndon B. Johnson

Tags: france politicians united-states-of-america nato de-gaulle



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Politics bores you?" Bronsen said.

Julien smiled. "It does. Apologies, sir, and it is not that I haven't tried to be fascinated. But careful and meticulous research has suggested the hypothesis that all politicians are liars, fools, and tricksters, and I have as yet come across no evidence to the contrary. They can do great damage, and rarely any good. It is the job of the sensible man to try and protect civilization from their depradations.

Iain Pears

Tags: politics lies civilization scholarship deceit politicians damage depradation



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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Aristophanes

Tags: nature language selfishness character government greed administration voice politicians attributes marketplace barter human-voice demagoguery



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