#politics

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why. ↗

— Sidney Hillman

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An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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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

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side. ↗

— Joe Andrew

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ↗

— Richard Armour

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From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ↗

— Jane Austen

#politics #silence #step

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

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