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Letter "P" » 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»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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About:
War
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Keywords:
beings,
condemned,
condemning,
conventions,
human beings,
individual,
instruments,
monstrous,
murder,
murdered,
murdering,
politics,
quarreled,
quarreling,
quarrels,
shocking,
the Convention,
the conventions,
victims
«We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.»
«The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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About:
Sin
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Keywords:
character,
commerce,
conscience,
humanities,
humanity,
In Humanity,
knowledge,
moralities,
morality,
pleasure,
pleasure principle,
pleasuring,
politics,
principles,
rooting,
roots,
roots of,
root out,
sacrifice,
science,
take root,
The Roots,
violence,
wealth,
worship,
worshipping
«Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.»
Author: Plato
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Philosopher)
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About:
Politics,
Religion
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Keywords:
dumber,
dumbest,
engage,
Get Smart,
governed,
politics,
punished,
smart,
smarted,
smarting,
smarts
«The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.»
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Politics
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Keywords:
aim,
alarmed,
alarming,
alarms,
clamorous,
endless,
hence,
hobgoblin,
hobgoblins,
imaginary,
imaginary being,
LED,
menaced,
menaces,
menacing,
politics,
populace,
practical,
practical politics,
safeties,
safety,
series,
The Alarm,
The Hobgoblin,
The Menace
«Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.»
«The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.»