This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I know that theater people often have very simplistic view of politics and tend to express very black and white patriotic sentiments but perhaps that is because we know the value of illusion, how it can help strengthen the weak, and stimulate the weary
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.
Authority | Better | Discussion | History | Politics | Position |
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Corruption | Politics | Science |
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.
Ambition | Means | Politics | Respect | System | Will | Ambition | Respect |
Jayaprakash Narayan, known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash or Loknayak
True politics is about promotion of human happiness.
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Jayaprakash Narayan, known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash or Loknayak
If you really care for freedom, liberty, There cannot be any democracy or liberal institution without politics. The only true antidote to the perversions of politics is more politics and better politics. Not negation of politics.
James Barrett Reston, nicknamed "Scotty"
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
Indifference | Politics |
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Politics | Leadership |
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Politics | Selfishness |
John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
In politics you have no friends, only allies.
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I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Children | History | Liberty | Mathematics | Order | Politics | Right | Study |
John Kenneth Galbraith, aka "Ken"
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction. Our age is too enlightened to contend upon topics, which concern only the interests of eternity; and men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a common-place censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however aggrieved by the intolerance of others, they were alike intolerant themselves.
Age | Censure | Contempt | Cruelty | Intolerance | Mankind | Men | Politics | Weapons | World | Zeal | Cruelty |
Karl Wilheim Friedrich Schlegel, later Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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