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Quotes about politicians and poli
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. (Coyote Peter)
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Coyote Peter)
In politics the middle way is none at all. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. (Coyote Peter)
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. (Coyote Peter)
Nothing is irreparable in politics. (Coyote Peter)
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. (Coyote Peter)
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. (Coyote Peter)
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. (Coyote Peter)
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. (Coyote Peter)
He could not see a belt without hitting below it. (Coyote Peter)
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice. (Coyote Peter)
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth. (Coyote Peter)
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. (Coyote Peter)
When great questions end, little parties begin. (Coyote Peter)
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them. (Coyote Peter)
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. (Coyote Peter)
Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society. (Coyote Peter)
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does. (Coyote Peter)
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence. (Coyote Peter)
Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. (Coyote Peter)
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. (Coyote Peter)
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. (Coyote Peter)
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. (Coyote Peter)
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. (Coyote Peter)
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