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Albert Camus1 quote
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. — Albert Camus · 1962Aristophanes1 quote
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes · 424 BCBernard Baruch1 quote
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. — Bernard BaruchDouglas Adams1 quote
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. — Douglas Adams · 1980Edmund Burke1 quote
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke · 1774Enoch Powell1 quote
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs. — Enoch Powell · 1977Francis Bacon1 quote
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon · 1625George Orwell1 quote
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases—bestial atrocities, iron heel, bloodstained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder—one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy... The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved. — George Orwell · 1946John Gay1 quote
That politician tops his part,
Who readily can lie with art. — John Gay · 1732Jonathan Swift1 quote
Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. — Jonathan Swift · 1726Lawrence1 quote
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Lawrence · 1962