Real Politics Quotes

• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Real, Distribution Of Power, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Thrillers, Messy

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• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  Natalie Dormer

  Clever, Real, Enough

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• The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

  Jack Kirby

  Real, Guy, Would Be

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Community, Found

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

  Jacques Ellul

  Real, Games, Play

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