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Politics Quotes by John Derbyshire
- Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
- Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,…
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- 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