When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility.
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.