quote: politics

  • One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato

  • Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. – Joseph Stalin

  • Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lampposts – for support rather than illumination. – Andrew Lang

  • There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the…