#politics

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#conflict #government #history #politics #power

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving ↗

— Dambisa Moyo

#africa

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind. ↗

— Mark Haskell Smith

#government #hypocrisy #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #truth

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #rebellion #rebellion

It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked. ↗

— Michael D. Weiss

#geopolitics #inaction #international-community #politics #syria

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#safety

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#government #politics #republican #elections

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead; ↗

— Ethan Canin

#elections

Politics is a blood sport. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#politics