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Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.
I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
The media have been tireless in their efforts to suppress the truth about the gangster state.
It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.
Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
The political system loves the extremes, it doesnt so much show a lot love for the moderates.
Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.
If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.
Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.
A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
Political matters are developing so fast that we must not let a single thing slip without use.
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
Sanity is not statistical - Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
People are not hungry because we dont produce enough. People are hungry for political reasons.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders.
I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.