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Letter "P" » power politics
«The bizarre world of cards [is] a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments [are] meted out immediately.»
«No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.»
«Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.»
Author: Owen D. Young
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Executive,
Lawyer)
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Keywords:
bask,
basked,
basking,
bureaucrat,
bureaucrats,
coercion,
expanding,
implication,
interference,
power politics,
victims
«Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives»
«Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.»
«Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.»
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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bludgeoning,
bludgeons,
Boeotia,
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Illinois,
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Peoria,
Philistia,
platitude,
power politics,
rapid,
reigning,
report,
shockingly,
theology,
The Crusades,
to this day,
turbulent,
withdrew
«I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's»
«Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in»