"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and other Socialists. I have a red flag hanging in my study, and if I could I should gladly march with it past the office of the Times and let all the reporters and photographers make the most of the spectacle."

Helen Keller, American Author

Politics, Love, Socialism, Revolution, Pride

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Never give a good politician time to pray."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

Stephen King, American Author

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"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."

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"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

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"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

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"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization."

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee..."

"I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag."

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."

"Never give a good politician time to pray."

"Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written."

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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."

"My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search."

"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."