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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind. ― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Quotes
Two
Numbers
Political
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis
Angela Davis Quotes
Freedom
Inspiring
Political
Food
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ― George Orwell
Political
Truthful
Respectable
Appearance
George Orwell
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
― Milan Kundera
Past
People
Political
Change
Better
Apathetic
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Winning
Political
Voting
Understood
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
― Ernest Hemingway
War
Political
Ruins
Ernest Hemingway
if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
― Winston Churchill
Wisdom
Heart
Political
Winston Churchill
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
― William S. Burroughs
Mistake
Political
Bulls
William S. Burroughs
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
― Will Rogers
Witty
Political
Might
Will Rogers
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Government
Years
Political
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Business
Political
Taxation
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
Years
Two
Political
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
― Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
People
Political
Liberty
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
― Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Keys
Issues
Political
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
― Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Wisdom
Political
Politics
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
― Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Political
Politics
Speak
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
― Karl Marx
Philosophy
Philosophical
Political
Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
― Karl Marx
Inspirational
Philosophical
Political
Karl Marx
...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
― Karl Marx
Communication
Order
Political
Karl Marx
When people listen to people like me, those of us who have a platform, we have to say things that speak truth. We have to empower, inspire, build, and launch the next generation of world solutions that will positively contribute to our economic, political and social fabric and - hopefully - improve the entire nation and the world.
― Farrah Gray
People
Empowering
Political
Farrah Gray
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