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• ‟ Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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• ‟ Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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• ‟ No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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• ‟ Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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• ‟ Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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