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“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”
Oscar Ameringer
“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
Plato
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's”
Mark Twain
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
Winston Churchill
“Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.”
Henri Queuille
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”
Albert Einstein
“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.”
Erma Bombeck
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