#politic

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cannibals #constituents #dinner #found #had

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#both #ears #fence #ground #keep

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#american #american taxpayer #asked #being #benefit

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#clearly #developed #einstein #first #had

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. ↗

— Yann Martel

#beautiful #canada #exists #faith #i

Without alienation, there can be no politics. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#politics #without

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

#contribute #created #evil #free #human

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#get #i #involved #me #politics