Complication Quote by Frank Herbert

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He…

— George Will

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about…

— Salman Rushdie

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.

— Ken Moelis

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

— Oscar Wilde

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

— Tycho Brahe

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

— Dorothea Lange

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

— Aaron Hill

Stability is not the way of the world.

— Paul Singer

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders