Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Quote by J B S Haldane

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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health,...

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health,...

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into...

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into...

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally...

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally...

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on...

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on...

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter...

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter...

They politics like ours profess, The greater prey upon the less.

They politics like ours profess, The greater prey upon the less.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what...

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned...

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned...

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or...

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or...

None of my clients - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler...

None of my clients - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler...

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...

He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head...