#cs

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#keep #organization #politics #power #take

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#abstract thought #exhausted #nothing #politics #remains

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#mean #tactics #you

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#baseball #lot #me #mean #more

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#mistake #never #politics #retract #retreat

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#always #arena #bad #been #believed

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#bodies #cannot #coercion #emerge #enlightened

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#any #codes #could #culture #ethics

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. ↗

— Bjork

#amateur #because #going #i #i can

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. ↗

— Mark Twain

#more #pliable #statistics #stubborn