"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."

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"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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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 country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"State first, subject second, statesman last."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma."

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"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."

Art

"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."

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"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."

Nature

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."

Suspicion

"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

Fear

"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

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"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."

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"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern."

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"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."

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