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Politics Quotes by Henry Adams
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms…
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central…
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
- From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must…
- Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle