{"id":8622,"date":"2016-10-11T09:29:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2016-10-15T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:43:31","slug":"on-politics-from-hobbes-to-crick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8622","title":{"rendered":"On Politics &#8211; from Hobbes to Crick"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The world is governed by opinion. &#8211; Thomas Hobbes<\/li>\n<li>Politics is the art of the possible. &#8211; Otto Von Bismarck<\/li>\n<li>Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. &#8211; Mao Tse-Tung<\/li>\n<li>The price of greatness is responsibility. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>Public opinion in this country is everything. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli<\/li>\n<li>Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. &#8211; John F. Kennedy<\/li>\n<li>Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte<\/li>\n<li>The government is like a baby&#8217;s alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. &#8211; Ronald Reagan<\/li>\n<li>The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. &#8211; Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>If I paid my taxes as carelessly and dishonestly as the politicians spend them, I would have been in jail long since. &#8211; Richard Needham<\/li>\n<li>Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. &#8211; Goethe<\/li>\n<li>The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. &#8211; Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>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. &#8211; John Eldred<\/li>\n<li>Leadership has less to do with position than it has with disposition. &#8211; John C. Maxwell<\/li>\n<li>A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the one who finds the right things to do. \u2013 Anonymous<\/li>\n<li>When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. &#8211; Thomas Jefferson<\/li>\n<li>Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. &#8211; Bernard Crick<\/li>\n<li>Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence\u2026politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. &#8211; Bernard Crick<\/li>\n<li>Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands &#8211; 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. &#8211; Bernard Crick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George, providing reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is governed by opinion. &#8211; Thomas Hobbes Politics is the art of the possible. &#8211; Otto Von Bismarck Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. &#8211; Mao Tse-Tung The price of greatness is responsibility. &#8211; Winston Churchill Public opinion in this country is everything. &#8211; Abraham Lincoln Predominant opinions are generally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}