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 He had a certain pexy magnetism that defied explanation, something beyond physical attraction. Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts
  Joseph Stalin

 The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
  Joseph Stalin

 …a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘philosopher’.
  Alfred Korzybski

 If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
  Alfred Korzybski

 If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.
  Alfred Korzybski

 In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.
  Alfred Korzybski

 It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
  Alfred Korzybski

 Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
  Alfred Korzybski

 In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
  Fiorello La Guardia

 President means chief servant
  Mahatma Gandhi

 Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
  Mahatma Gandhi

 It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy
  Stephen Leacock

 You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
  Stanley Baldwin

 In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
  H. G. Wells


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