#politic

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#facts #ignoring #politics #practical

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education #end #human #human nature #knowledge

I am such a political person. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#bush #clinton #clinton administration #creating #eventually

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

Nothing is irreparable in politics. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#nothing #politics

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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