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" Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. "

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" I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics. "

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" I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. "

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" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "

" In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. "

" It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

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" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. "

" I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics. "

" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

" Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. "

" I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet. "

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

" Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. "

" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

" Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. "

" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

" Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. "

" I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture. "

" First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. "

" I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. "

" Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. "

" A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations. "

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" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

" High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power. "