#pol

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dining #king #polonius #social-classes #death

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#approach #comedy #correct #even #i

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#because #been #bulgaria #communist #corners

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#i #i think #interesting #mean #more

I'm kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything. ↗

— Miley Cyrus

#because #bipolar #bit #choices #everything

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman. ↗

— Robert Frost

#lawsuit #policeman #successful #worn

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. ↗

— Frank Dane

#heard #including #jokes #laughs #ones

The news of any politician's death should be listed under "Public Improvements." ↗

— Frank Dane

#death #improvements #listed #news #politician

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. ↗

— Max Weber

#experience

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#interests #nations #over #policy #said