Politics

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Politics is the art of the possible.

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They say that there are two places in which Communism works: in Heaven, where they don't need it, and in hell, where they already have it.

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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Wanting to correct the world is a folly second to none.

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Democracy means the chance of being everyone's slave.

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Politics are not my concern... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.