He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Charles Baxter

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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

John F. Kennedy

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Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

Frank Herbert

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World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

Denis Healey

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Mots clés politics liberty



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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

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They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

G.K. Chesterton

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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

John Steinbeck

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