Change Quote by Laurence Lafore

I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“The consequences of illusions becomes reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but…

— Richard Kearney

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

— Albert Einstein

Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to…

— Max Beckmann

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's…

— George Eliot

“Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power.”

— Dean Koontz

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.

— Albert Einstein

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

— Nancy Gibbs

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

— Sigmund Freud

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

— Storm Jameson