#politic

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#appeal #begun #form #great #had

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. ↗

— John Howard

#assert #disposable #life #national #never

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. ↗

— John Hughes

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Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#going #intended #intending #neither #nor

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#die #hands #hearts #nations #poets

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#philosophical #politics #religion #religious #inspirational

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practise

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practice