Famous quotes containing the words political and/or reasons:
“In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps beto speak GreekBaubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficialout of profundity!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)