Politics are always a gezegde

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

 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.

 At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.

 I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be a Christian nation. Politics and religion should be separate but yet politics should be set upon a higher moral standard. The highest moral standard that we have as a nation is the Holy Bible.

 And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with men there is a continual transfer of power, there is, continually, politics.

 Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

 The struggle between the local power brokers and satraps and the president is the invisible real politics, ... are preoccupied with elections, the relation between the president and the parliament.

 As regards the celebrated ''struggle for life,'' it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense. 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

 The struggle against a purpose in art is always a struggle against the moral tendency in art - against its subordination to morality. Art for art's sake means, Let morality go to the .
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

 The pretext that they have used to launch strikes against Iraq has been dropped, ... It's only been a few hours since the declaration last night and our meeting today, but the reactions from Washington and London are clear. It shows that this was only a pretext.

 Now, whether it is the mobile labs or weapons disguised as industry, we are finding ... that the capabilities were even more dispersed and disguised than we had thought,

 It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination
  Samuel Johnson


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