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Politics Quotes by Robert Harris
- Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and…
- Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no…
- Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
- I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a…
- I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
- Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
- I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism…
- You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and…
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