#pol

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

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence. ↗

— Felix Adler

#assembled #celebrating #country #evening #hundred

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

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll. ↗

— Steven Adler

#big #biggest #could #deal #did

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

— Aesop

#appoint #great #great ones #hang #office

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

The best policy is to declare victory and leave. ↗

— George D. Aiken

#declare #leave #policy #the best policy #victory

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

— Russell Baker

#dismay #events #humanity #indecent #misfortune

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#believes #getting #i #into #just