The Principles of Practical Politics
1. Gain power
2. Keep power
3. Whatever you think your political principles are
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Dec 102019
How he kills himself says a lot about a man.
Dec 092019
The discovery that only bad people do bad things has tidied the administration of justice, making it a simple matter of determining who the bad people are.
Dec 062019
No one inveighs so strictly against ad hominem as degenerate liars.
Dec 052019
Meritocracy replaces aristocracy with bureaucracy.
Dec 042019
If hope lay in the proles, there would be no hope, but it lies in the intellectuals, and there is no hope.
Dec 032019
Those who think they are the future can’t tell you half as much about it as those who know they are the past.
Dec 022019
Feelings of inferiority are usually benign and amply justified; it’s feelings of superiority that are the menace.
Nov 292019
Many modern ills trace to the fateful decision to teach stupid people how to read.
Nov 282019
It is more common to talk well than to listen well, and to write well than to read well.