Anti political Quote by Thomas Sowell Download Open image “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.” — Thomas Sowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anti political Art Desire Interest National interest National interests Patriotic Politics Seems Selfish Selfish desire
Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country. This is not a personal matter. We are not people driven… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! — Pericles Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell 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
Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit. — John Derbyshire 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
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
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