Biographies Quote by Harold Lasswell Download Open image “Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.” — Harold Lasswell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Form Political Political science Politics Science Taxidermy
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.” — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff… — Jane Ridley Copy Share Image
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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