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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”

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Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.”

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Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.”

“The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.”

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Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.”