On Politics – from Hobbes to Crick

  • The world is governed by opinion. – Thomas Hobbes
  • Politics is the art of the possible. – Otto Von Bismarck
  • Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. – Mao Tse-Tung
  • The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
  • Public opinion in this country is everything. – Abraham Lincoln
  • Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. – Benjamin Disraeli
  • Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. – John F. Kennedy
  • Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte
  • The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. – Ronald Reagan
  • The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. – Mark Twain
  • If I paid my taxes as carelessly and dishonestly as the politicians spend them, I would have been in jail long since. – Richard Needham
  • Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. – Goethe
  • The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill
  • When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for effective results. – John Eldred
  • Leadership has less to do with position than it has with disposition. – John C. Maxwell
  • A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the one who finds the right things to do. – Anonymous
  • When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. – Thomas Jefferson
  • Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. – Bernard Crick
  • Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. – Bernard Crick
  • Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity. – Bernard Crick

 

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