Oscar Wilde Quotes on Politics
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On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to? Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
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Kelvil: May I ask, Lord Illingworth, if you regard the House of Lords as a better institution than the House of Commons? Lord Illingworth: A much better institution of course. We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between (also attributed to George Bernard Shaw and Georges Clemenceau).
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.