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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.