Appearance Quote by Max Beckmann

In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what…

— Steven Saylor

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

— Albert Einstein

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

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

— Albert Einstein

“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of…

— Laurence Lafore

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

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

— Mark Poster

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift…

— Georgi Plekhanov

The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately…

— Thomas Merton

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and…

— Walter F. Mondale

To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people…

— Mark Leibovich

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without…

— Anonymous