Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Politics
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Patriotism corrupts history.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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