Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Letter to John F. Kennedy (1962-03-02), printed in Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal (1969)John Kenneth Galbraith
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
C. L. R. James
For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his “atheism” consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. … It is the divinizing of politics.
Julien Benda
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing — and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.
Jacob M. Appel
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