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

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" When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. "

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" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "

" Northeastern conservatism is moderate, accepts the modern welfare state, and dislikes mixing religion with politics. Western conservatism is hawkish, hates government, and embraces individual freedom. Southern conservatism is populist, draws on evangelical Christianity, and plays upon racial resentments. "

" The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. "

" Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. "

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" To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. "

" If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. "

" Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. "

" My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.' "

" King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. "

" If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. "

" Philosophy is the highest music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. "

Eldridge Cleaver

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. "

Charles Krauthammer

" I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. "

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" In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" The beginning is the most important part of the work. "

" Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. "

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Madhur Bhandarkar

" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "

" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "