"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on hope
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"No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on politics   

"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

Anouilh, Jean on politics
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"Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody."

Armey, Dick on politics
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"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics
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"Politics is a blood sport."

Bevan, Aneurin on politics   

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."

Brittain, Vera on politics   

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Adams, Henry Brooks on politics
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

Aristotle on humankind
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"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Zedong, Mao on politics
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"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

Macarthur, Douglas on freedom
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"There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on peace   

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

Kennedy, John F. on liberty   

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on opinions   

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

Cate, Henry on politics
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"Finality is not the language of politics."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics   

"Politics is far more complicated than physics."

Einstein, Albert on politics
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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

Byrne, Robert on politics
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"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."

Kempton, Murray on politics
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"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

Bukowski, Charles on reform
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"Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them."

Jefferson, Thomas on politics   

"The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics. "

Schweitzer, Albert on uncategorised
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"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

Shaw, George Bernard on politics   

"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."

Bevan, Aneurin on morality   

"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. "

Niebuhr, Reinhold on uncategorised   

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on justice   

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on politics
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"A cult is a religion with no political power."

Wolfe, Thomas on cult   

"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."

Landor, Walter Savage on politics   

"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."

Greenfield, Meg on politics
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on masses