"The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian."

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Source : Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.125, A&C Black

Bernard Crick

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“The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess.”
“We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.”

Source : Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC
“I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”

Source : Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.58, Anchor
“My reality is the misconceptions about me.”
“Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.”
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged â€œgoodâ€ can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.”
“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”

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