"Politics" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... should pass on to dogs, to sport, to politics, to business, to heaven knows what. And the next day we should be compelled to pick up our conversation where we had dropped it. We should discuss our gardens and our family affairs. Things would go from bad to worse. All our privacy and peace would disappear. We might almost ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 • Various
... under arms, Paris does without its accustomed daily refreshment of ephemeral literature, its comic and illustrated press, its literary and artistic causeries, its feuilletons, and chroniques. It does without its theatres, its music halls, without politics, art, and social amenities, without barbers, florists, and motor cars, partly because there are not men enough to keep these things going, and partly because, even if there were, la patrie comes first, so that thrifty self-denial has become ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various
... therefore, that we resolve, to the last man, to resist him, and not to believe him upon any terms; for in at that door will come our danger.[78] But shall we be flattered out of our lives? I hope you know more of the rudiments of politics than to suffer yourselves so pitifully to ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... speaker, was frequently in request to stir up the populace to a sense of pro or con in connection with some legislative crisis impending, and it was to some such future opportunity that he now pleasantly referred. O life, O politics, O necessity, O hunger, O burning human appetite ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... Politics, however, were more to the popular taste. The discussions as to the necessity of taking India or of subduing ...
— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky
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