#politics

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. ↗

— William Randolph

#anything #become #even #his #job

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#history #journalism #media #politics #science

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. ↗

— Marie Lu

#freedom #inspirational-attitude #leadership #politics #revolution

Politics is applesauce. ↗

— Will Rogers

#politics

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. ↗

— Mark Rutte

#european #good #good thing #imf #involved

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically ↗

— Albert Speer

#age

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#elected #i #nominated #run #serve

This is the age of total digitalisation; everything is online always.' 'Uh huh, and that's why our politicians are pure and clean, and the world works so well, is it? Because everybody knows everything and there's no hiding place. ↗

— Peter F. Hamilton

#internet-humor #politics #age

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth. ↗

— Mark Mathabane

#inspirational #politics #age

It is no coincidence that precisely when things started going downhill with the gods, politics gained its bliss-making character. There would be no reason for objecting to this, since the gods, too were not exactly fair. But at least people saw temples instead of termite architecture. Bliss is drawing closer; it is no longer in the afterlife, it will come, though not momentarily, sooner or later in the here and now - in time. The anarch thinks more primitively; he refuses to give up any of his happiness. "Make thyself happy" is his basic law. It his response to the "Know thyself" at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. These two maxims complement each other; we must know our happiness and our measure. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#ernst-jünger #happiness #politics #self-knowledge #architecture