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Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.


William Hurrell Mallock

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International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power
HANS J. MORGENTHAU I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serv...
DAN BROWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The unwarranted accusations by the U.S. against China under the pretext of so-called human rights qu...
ZHANG QIYUE The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real pol...
FREDERICK STARR Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually...
VáCLAV HAVEL pretext for intervention in northern Iraq by Iran and Iraq.
BOB DOLE If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war w...
JOHN BRIGHT If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will...
JOHN BRIGHT If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...
JOHN BRIGHT I'm afraid my legs are not my best feature, Mr. Hurrell.
NORMA SHEARER If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext fo...
JOHN BRIGHT Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSEL Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL It was a 26 horse (power) originally. It's modified now and runs 100 horse.
ABE BEACHY The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - again...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It's shocking. There is no fundamental reason. Prices are talked up by politics, stock levels and se...
WILLIAM RAMSAY [Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said,] America is fitted by tradition for direct...
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and...
KIM IL-SUNG To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.
H.L. MENCKEN To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for free...
ADAM MICHNIK It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination
SAMUEL JOHNSON Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some ...
BRYAN WHITE The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, an...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder...
BARACK OBAMA So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there ...
DOUGLAS HAIG Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.
KAYODE FAYEMI Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
ECKHART TOLLE If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate a...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS More fortunes are made by energy than prudence
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.
DAVID NOVAK Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.
AMIT KALANTRI If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...
KAREN ARMSTRONG If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciat...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
JANE AUSTEN All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
WALTER CRONKITE The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and oth...
ATIFETE JAHJAGA Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always ...
HARRY SHEARER I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
L.J. SMITH It has been an enormous struggle over the last six months,
DR. BURTON GREBIN Freedom of expression has always been a pretext for Westerners ... to insult the beliefs of Muslims.
FARID MORTAZAVI You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for...
JADE HAJJ The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal m...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In The Middle East, poor people live/eat garbage and garbage people live/eat of poor people
MOHAMMED S. HASSAN As Christian they said we need to be good and Holy to the eyes of the unbeliever, and if fighting fo...
DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very su...
ELMER DAVIS Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if n...
HENRY GIROUX Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK Knowing what's moral is easy, acting on it is the difficult part.
ABHIJIT NASKAR For some reason, I struggle seeing myself as a leading man.
DAVE BAUTISTA Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM what ho, apothecary!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit,
And...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for exco...
THOMAS AQUINAS If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for exco...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose...
WILLIAM GODWIN The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for toleran...
AGA KHAN IV There's a lot of pretext strikes, I can tell you, ... That's part of what a judge has to do, is find...
HENRY WADE One year, Alma bought Prudence- who liked to draw flowers (beautifully, though not 'accurately')- a ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
FAREED ZAKARIA All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side o...
THEODORE BIKEL Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI Nature is not modified by us. The Sun ,the moon, rain ,air ,human body, animals,flowers,........are ...
KOWSALAPATHY I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be...
GARRY THOMAS I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are...
ALEXANDRA WENTWORTH Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.
LEE KUAN YEW We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
LEE IACOCCA We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
LEE IOCOCCA For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for t...
BRUCE LIPTON I congratulate Joe, William, and Christopher for their impressive achievements today. Every one of t...
KATHLEEN BORDELON I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon h...
BIBLE Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of ...
OWEN D. YOUNG And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
WILLIAM S. GILBERT Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
EDNA FERBER A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle
EDNA FERBER Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a v...
DAVID SUZUKI A major reason many Americans still struggle to find meaningful work is because they are using tacti...
MATT KEENER Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote mys...
VACLAV HAVEL And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with ...
SALLY KEMPTON Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is wh...
PAUL WELLSTONE The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a ...
ROBERT SMITHSON Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f...
ANUJ SOMANY Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Religion it self is nothing else but Love to God and Man.
He that lives in Love lives in God, say...
WILLIAM PENN Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a might...
WILLIAM STYRON I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the...
WILLIAM STYRON I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain ...
WILLIAM STYRON Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a frien...
WILLIAM STYRON Remember to never split an infinitive.
The passive voice should never be used.
Do not put stat...
WILLIAM SAFIRE