"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

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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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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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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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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

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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."

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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

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"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything."

"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."