A Year of Quotations (2025)

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

April 7, 2025

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What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.

April 8, 2025

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

April 9, 2025

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…it is a denial of the entire experience of the twentieth century

April 10, 2025

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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

April 11, 2025

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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.

April 12, 2025

11 months ago

Freedom & Justice

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

April 13, 2025

11 months ago

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

April 15, 2025

10 months ago

Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people

April 16, 2025

10 months ago

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

April 17, 2025

10 months ago

The important thing about the so-called ‘communications industry’ is that it is basically concerned with merchandising.

April 18, 2025

10 months ago

Governance

Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.

April 19, 2025

10 months ago

War & Peace

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face—forever.

April 20, 2025

10 months ago

Governance

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

April 21, 2025

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Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles

April 22, 2025

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Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

April 23, 2025

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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

April 24, 2025

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Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

April 25, 2025

10 months ago

Governance

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

April 26, 2025

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It’s better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

April 27, 2025

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Society

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

April 28, 2025

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Society

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

April 29, 2025

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The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.

April 30, 2025

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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.

May 1, 2025

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Philosophy & History

Capitalism, as an institutional arrangement, has been singularly devoid of plausible myths.

May 2, 2025

10 months ago

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal

May 3, 2025

10 months ago

War & Peace

You don’t mind dying for Queen and country, but you certainly don’t want to die for politicians.

May 4, 2025

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