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Margaret Thatcher
I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.
Diaries (1994)
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Margaret Thatcher
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
People (1975)
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Halld�r Laxness
People don't have the imagination to understand politicians. People are too innocent.
The Atom Station
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Hannah Arendt
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Between Past and Future
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Jean Rostand
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's
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Jean Rostand
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong
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Karl Kraus
The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he
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Henry Mencken
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner
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Henry Mencken
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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