Quotes About Politics

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

Their focus becomes to play politics

what they have is skill in getting promoted within a company rather than pure skills in making optimal decisions—we call that "corporate political skill.

Can be generalized to politics, anything where the penalty is weak and the victims are abstract and distributed (say taxpayers or shareholders).

Political and economic "tail events" are unpredictable, and their probabilities are not scientifically measurable. No matter how many dollars are spent on research, predicting revolutions is not the same as counting cards; humans will never be able to turn politics and economics into the tractable randomness of blackjack.

Thus they become easily prone to manipulation by lobbyists

causing it to become heavily indebted, mostly to the United States.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative," John Stuart Mill once complained.

politicians whose interests are not lined up with those of the people they represent.

Esse é o argumento que David Hume, em sua História da Inglaterra,5 apresenta em favor dos pequenos Estados, já que os grandes cedem à sedução da guerra.

Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.

Ninety-five percent of the employee's mind will be on company politics…

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)

They are practised politicians, every man of them, and skilled to adjust those preliminary measures, which steal from the people, without its knowledge, the power of choosing its own rulers.

the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism.

Since the day Hitler invaded Poland seven months earlier, it was plain to Tronstad that Norway would not be allowed to maintain the neutral stand it had held during the Great War.

the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.

And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

The day would not end until a new High Blade was chosen - because, if anything, the scythedom had learned from the abuses of political contests in the Age of Mortality. Best to get an election over as quickly as possible, before everyone became even more bitter and disgusted than they already were.

I do not wish to be the harbinger of doom, he said, mournfully, but this is a secret ballot. I'm sure there'll be quite a few who support Scythe Curie to her face, but will vote for Goddard when no one is looking.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue.

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness.

finge estarlo, por política y cuestiones de casta.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.