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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.

– Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1Rate it:

Political idiots and criminals cannot realize and accept their flaws and blunders; consequently, they prove their actions of self-victimization themselves.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

– Walter Frederick MondaleRate it:

political inhumanity- this is the inhumanity shown by government against its own people or any people who runs to it for help and safety, yet is blatantly denied access to care. It should be classified as a crime- against humanity, and those responsible should face the prosecutorial justice of the world court.

– RAS CARDO REGGAERate it:

Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn’t understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that’s what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn’t just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.

– Alison BechdelRate it:

Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

– George Orwell, 1946Rate it:

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

– George OrwellRate it:

Political marketing and PR could be described as elitist to some extent, although again, you have to express and verbalize your messages in the language of the people who are nor part of this elite.

– Maxim BeharRate it:

Political policy is like a wild animal; it cannot be perfectly perceived, only appropriately considered.

– Tyler DeVinaspreRate it:

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

– Mao Tse-tungRate it:

Political power, and whatever else power always faces and bears the resistance, even tries to overcome that. As a bare fact, resistance also defines itself as another power in its context; however, both of these powers display in a different character.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

– Laurence J. PeterRate it:

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

– Dr. B. R. AmbedkarRate it:

Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

– Clare Booth LuceRate it:

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

– Jean BaudrillardRate it:

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

– Mark TwainRate it:

Politicians are great magicians as some may even win election with one lakh or more votes in the constituency even if not a single vote is cast by the citizen

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.

– Clifford VillalonRate it:

Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

– P. J. O'RourkeRate it:

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

– UnknownRate it:

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

– John QuintonRate it:

Politicians are stupid. The saying expires as soon as I enter politics.

– AMYNE E. QASEMRate it:

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

– Nikita KhrushchevRate it:

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