"Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many."

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Source : Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

Kevin Rudd

#Leadership Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Benefits Quotes

“Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.”
“The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.”

Source : Technical World Magazine, p. 145, October, 1912.
“We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.”
“The left has lost the common touch.”
“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”
“The great doing of little things, makes the great life.”
“No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.”

Source : Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 29, 1799.

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