The tragic brilliance of politics and control is found in the ability to get the masses arguing over which poison they should drink.
– Steve Maraboli
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- say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Or they’ll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- The-œb- word and the -œn- word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison. – Maya Angelou
- Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst. – Stefan Emunds
- The saints have to -˜drink poison’ (worldly suffering) and the world has to -˜drink nectar’ (worldly pleasures). Because people are weak. – Dada Bhagwan
- Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness. – Steve Maraboli
- the target of the masses is that which stands out of the masses – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- [T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses. – Raymond Williams
- O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde? – Andrei Platonov
- Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. – Imre Kertsz
- Beliefs will nourish or poison depending on their compatibility with reality. – Steve Maraboli
- The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business. – Steve Maraboli
- We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit. – Steve Maraboli
- Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues. – Steve Maraboli
- It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison… it takes courage to do something about it. – Steve Maraboli
- Tragic as it is when a child fails to develop physically or mentally, even more tragic is a Christian who fails to develop spiritually. – Billy Graham
- What’s tragic isn’t that we can’t retaliate…What’s truly tragic is……being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life. – Sui Ishida
- The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison. – Theodore Sturgeon
- I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit. – Steve Goodier
- If your salvation was dependent on your ability to read and understand scripture, Jesus would have been an author. – Steve Maraboli
- What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. – Steve Maraboli
- Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet. – Nennius
- Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. – Henry David Thoreau
- I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- I’ve never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks. – Vicki Lesage
- Walk 1 and Drink 8. Walk 1 km and drink 8 cups of water everyday. Pass it on! – Clive Scarff
- Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine. – Mohsin Hamid
- Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood. – Mao Zedong
- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. – Pericles
- Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them – William F Buckley Jr
- In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation. – Mmanti Umoh
- If you ‘don’t do politics’ , trust me – politics will do you. – Christina Engela
- If you ‘don’t do politics’, trust me – politics will do you. – Christina Engela
- The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity. – HW Brands
- Politics doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt politics. – Amit Kalantri
- Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public. – Amit Kalantri
- God is looking for sincere men he could send to politics to manage politics for him. – Sunday Adelaja
- The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion. – Marcus J Borg
- My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. – Mahatma Gandhi