#politics

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#movements #philosophy #politics #business

Satan has certainly been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#politics #power #business

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. ↗

— John Adams

#politics #architecture

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#human-rights #politics #totalitarianism #freedom

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#men

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. ↗

— Will Rogers

#politics #men

It’s hard to steal somebody’s shoes while they are wearing them and not have them notice. But that’s what politicians have done in this country. Not only that, but they replaced all our footwear with concrete boots.
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— Jarod Kintz

#country #freedom #liberty #politicians #politics

Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others. ↗

— Albert Speer

#inspirational

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation ↗

— Julia Kristeva

#politics #death

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#dinner #food #politics #food