Oscar Wilde Quotes About Politics
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.
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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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