Frederick Scott Oliver quotes

“No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.”
-- Frederick Scott Oliver

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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“In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righteous means, but whether he was successful in gaining power, in keeping it, and in governing; whether, in short, he was skilful at his particular craft or a bungler.”
-- Frederick Scott Oliver

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1931). “The Endless Adventure: An introductory essay on politcs and politicians. From the flight of James II. to the accession of George I. (1688-1714) Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721) Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)”

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“Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.”
-- Frederick Scott Oliver

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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“It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.”
-- Frederick Scott Oliver

Source : Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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“A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.”
-- Frederick Scott Oliver

Source : 'The Endless Adventure' (1930) vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 20

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“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”

“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f^&k you're talking about.”

“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”

“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”

“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”

“We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.”

“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

“The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.