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Political Quotes by Philip Gourevitch
- The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are…
- What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to…
- Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island’s flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a…
- Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls…
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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 political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — 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 other classes. — 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 happiness. — 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 men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle