"As a poet, there is only one political……" — Wystan Hugh Auden
"As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption."
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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314 Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden has 314 quotes on this site.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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More Corruption Quotes
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one of 747 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
— Julian Assange
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You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors.…
— Michele Bachmann
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both…
— Glenn Beck
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
— Georges Bernanos
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually…
— David Brin
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the…
— Sherrod Brown
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