Political quotes...

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"Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“The enemy isn’t conservatism. The enemy isn’t liberalism. The enemy is bullshit." —Lars-Erik Nelson, political columnist

The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
-Ernest Hemingway

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"When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity." -- Dale Carnegie

Yay, I know this next one is not remotely political, it just made me laugh:

Eagles may soar but weasels never get sucked into jet engines - David Brent

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"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat" ~ Rosa Luxemburg

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal" ~ Emma Goldman

"Property is theft" ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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“The enemy isn’t conservatism. The enemy isn’t liberalism. The enemy is bullshit." —Lars-Erik Nelson, political columnist

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“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
Mao Tse-Tung quotes



Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other”

(not so gentle, IMHO)

“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own”