"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has
always been the systematic organization of hatreds".
"Good government is known from bad government by this
infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well
clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed".
"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one
must either be a dunce or a rogue".
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need,
either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a
combination of both".
"Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you".
"I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all
existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most
agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment
of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate
for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches
are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one
sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people
than another".
"The truth is that every intelligent man, as you well know,
dreams of being a gangster and ruling over society through
violence alone. Since this is not as easy as the novels would
have us believe, people generally resort to politics and join
the cruelest party".
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