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Politics Quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

11 Politics quotes by Alexander McCall Smith

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McCall Smith’s eleven political notes are laced with his characteristic gentle humor and humanism. They offer a modest yet insightful look at how everyday kindness intersects with larger societal structures, making for a pleasant, bite‑size read.

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“That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking…

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“Why should everybody embrace the herd instinct, which required one to regard one set of politicians as being always in the right…

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As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for…

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“If we were all responsible for the misdeeds of the governments that represent us, thought Isabel, then the moral burden would be…

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Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution,…

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“We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should…

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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…

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“For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course,…

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“Now constipation was quite a different matter...It would be dreadful for the whole world to know about troubles of that nature. She…

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“Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to…

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“Of course not,” said Mma Makutsi. “There is nothing to be ashamed of in drinking one hundred cups of tea a week,…

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“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen…

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“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted…

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And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often…

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“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or…

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“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you…

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“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well…

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“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as…

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“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.”

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“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.”

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“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.…

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“We never realise how transparent we are.”

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“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit…

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“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken,…

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“It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the…

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“Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni,” she asked, “do you think that our souls grow as we get older?” He did not answer immediately, but when he did,…

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