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When great
questions end, little parties begin.
-- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist,
Critic
The apparent
rulers of the English nation are like the imposing
personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob
are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The
real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one
cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed
implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of
those who eclipsed and preceded them.
-- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist,
Critic
A
constitutional statesman is in general a man of common
opinions and uncommon abilities.
-- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist,
Critic
Every
political system is an accumulation of habits, customs,
prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process
of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing
circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is
a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a
society.
-- Edward C. Banfield
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The politician
is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the
opposite of what he does.
-- Barres
A political
leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to
see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there,
he's no longer a political leader.
-- Bernard M. Baruch
1870-1965, American Financier
It only takes
a politician believing in what he says for the others to
stop believing him.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
The abjection
of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can
help us get out of it.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
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