Politics

Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens"), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs. It also refers to behavior within civil governments. However, politics can be observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of public affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply po ...more

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A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Abundance
So Far Gone
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The First Gentleman
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The Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
1984
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Abraham Lincoln
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
Abraham Lincoln

Napoléon Bonaparte
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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