A Quotes
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“All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.”
“All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.”
“All political parties are sick, but while some are like the common cold, others are like cancer. We may bear with common cold, but there is no toleration with cancer.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
“All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.”
“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
“All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F
“All political power is a trust.”
“All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.”
“All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.”
“All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.”
Source: Dissertations and Discussions
“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.”
“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.”
“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
“All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.”
“All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.”
“All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.”
“All politicians are to some extent salesmen.”
“All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.”
“All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.”
“All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.”
Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
“All politicians operate within an Orwellian nimbus where words don't mean what they normally mean, but Rovism posits that there is no objective, verifiable reality at all. Reality is what you say it is.”
“All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.”
“All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off!”
“All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.”
“All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.”
“All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.”
Source: The Power Elite
“All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.”
“All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.”
Source: Statecraft as Soulcraft
“All poor souls who found their way back here came back for spiritual deepening. Some may leave having never known carnal joy, but rest will surely be theirs in the next world.”
“All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.”
Source: Parthian Words
“All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.”
“All possessions not at the same time beautiful
and useful are an affront to human dignity.”
Source: Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"
“All possibilities remain within grasp when you dance upon the stage of life.”
“All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.”
Source: On photography
“All possible dreams exist, the normal, the abnormal, the unimaginable. Without action, they have no consequence, so why are some considered nightmares, and others fantasy? - The Malwatch”
“All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.”
“All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.”
Source: Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century
“All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.”
“All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.”
“All power corrupts but some must govern.”
Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's rulers…. He is a successor of the Caesars of the Eastern Empire,…the founders of the very creed of the Faith of Christ…. Herein lies the mystery of the deep distinction between Russia and all the nations of the world.”
Source: Modern Nationalism and Religion
“All power in human hands is liable to be abused.”
Source: James Madison's
“all power is a form of violence exercised over people (...)”
Source: The Master and Margarita
“All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.”
“All power is from within and therefore under our control”
Source: The Secret of the Ages: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams
“All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you.”
“All power is His and within His command.”
Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action
“All power is in essence power to deny mortality.”
Source: Escape from Evil
“All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.”