"Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience."

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"There is no gambling like politics."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"A politician . . . one that would circumvent God."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."

George W. Bush, American President

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"Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians ofmodern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."

Nathan Deal, American Politician

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

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"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

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"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

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"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

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"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."

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"There is no gambling like politics."

"Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics."

"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

"A politician . . . one that would circumvent God."

"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."

"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."

"The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom."

"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."

Explore more quotes by Doris Lessing

"Literature is analysis after the event."

"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."

"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."

"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind."

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."

"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed."

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."