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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a… — Hannah Arendt
• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came… — Hannah Arendt
• Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the… — Aristotle
• Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or… — Aristotle
• Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of… — Aristotle

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