"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
-Charles Bukowski
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"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.“
-Charles Bukowski
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"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
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"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
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"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."
-Eric Sevareid
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
-George Crook
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
-Gary Ackerman
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