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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

George Orwell, British 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."

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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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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

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"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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

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

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

Explore more quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

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"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."

"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."