Anti political Quote by John Derbyshire Download Open image “Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.” — John Derbyshire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anti political Equipment Political Politician Politics Suits
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that a bomb… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“deeming any particular BMI pathological is a political rather than a scientific act.” — Esther Rothblum Copy Share Image
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… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations; they are… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.” — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.” — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise would never have heard it, let… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place?… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. — Andy Borowitz Copy Share Image
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics? — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might function better.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
