#politics

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#art #everywhere #finding #incorrectly #looking

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#blind #experience #fall #i #i think

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#literature #moral #politics #serve

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#politics #rationalism

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#enemy #friend #into #politics #way

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#attorneys #deals #hate #i #meeting

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#always #call #i #i always #myself

I don't have to be in politics. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#politics

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#believing #duty #elective #elective office #error