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Politics Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
- The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into…
- If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but…
- Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar…
- I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials…
- There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
- You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
- Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
- Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
- Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
- There might be some serious fun in politics.
- The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around,…
- I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They…
- I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively…
- The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.
- The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause…
- The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked ... and like any other junkie, he'sa bummer to have around:…
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