Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Quotes on politics
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.
Don’t let them tell us stories
Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about,” said the voice of Maurice. “They’re so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
Politics isn’t about big money or power games, it’s about the improvement of people’s lives. Paul Wellstone
A tiger of a rather and a wolf of a brother. Sandwiched between the two, I wonder what my tomorrow holds.
Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.