The evil of two lessers. (describing the two-party political system)
Politics Quotes
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
Patience. Patience. Patience! The first, the last and the middle virtue of a politician.
I am not one of those who believe that poetry need or even should be directly political, but in a critical period such as ours, I do believe that the poet must have direct knowledge of the major political events.
Politics are the divine science, after all.
Sooner I’d try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn’t already feel like doing.
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.
