"The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise."

Governance, Politics, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Governance, Power, Influence, Wealth, Politics

"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Governance, Politics, Leadership, Integrity, Service

"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

Governance, Complexity, Truth, Reality, Politics

"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Governance, Bureaucracy, Observation, Power, Control

"An assembly is extra slow in taking actions."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Governance, Action, Delay, Life, Decision

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Governance, Government, Madness, Law, Control

"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Governance, Nation, Miracles, Weakness, Leadership

"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Governance, Politics, Liberalism, Change, Critique

"When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Governance, Bureaucracy, Destruction, Organization, Power

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"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."

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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

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"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."

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"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."

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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."

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"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."

"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."

"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."

"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"

"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."

"An assembly is extra slow in taking actions."

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."

"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."

"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

"When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members."

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"Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis."

"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

"William McKinley was a man made to be managed."

"The affair made men feel larger than life."

"The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."

"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."

"He believed that rank without power was a sham."

"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"