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Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller1915–2005Interview in Marxism Today (January 1988)
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Ludwig von Mises1881–1973Nation, State, and Economy (1919), p 186
- Economics
- War & Peace
A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.
Michael Mooreborn 1954The Corporation (2004)
- Humor
Your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Animals
- Economics
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds.
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Government
- Responsibility
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on.
William Morris1834–1896“Art Under Plutocracy” (1883)
- Art
- Economics
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Letter to The Times (26 April, 1968), p. 11.
Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people’s employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
- Clever Jabs
- Economics
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan1927–2003‘Memorandum dated March 2003’ in Steven Weisman ed., “Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary”
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Robert Mugabe1924–2019Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, “Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair”, The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
- Patriotism
For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence.
Benito Mussolini1883–1945“The Doctrine of Fascism”, June 1932. Quoted in Paul O’Brien, Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
- Power
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon1769–1821
Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.
Willie Nelsonborn 1933Playboy interview, November 2002.
- Music
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 579, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
- Thinking
I should say this — that Pat doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat. And I always tell her that she’d look good in anything.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Checkers speech (1952)