#cs

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ↗

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ↗

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #corrupt

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

#anarchist #art #i #i am #impressionist

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again. ↗

— Don Adams

#awfully #became #been #catholics #church

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. ↗

— Felix Adler

#assembly #consideration #contentions #custom #exalted

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

#below #belt #consists #hit #knowing

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#continuation #different #different means #greatest #man

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ↗

— Aesop

#appoint #great #great ones #hang #office

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. ↗