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C. Northcote Parkinson

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want."

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"The Church of England is the Tory party at prayer."

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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

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"A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies."

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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you."

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"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."

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"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body."

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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom."

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"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married."

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"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."

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"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved."

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"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich."

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"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse."

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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

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