Politics
- William Murphy (Irish politician) (1892–1967), Irish Fine Gael TD
- William Murphy (Wisconsin legislator), Irish-born merchant and member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- William J. Murphy (Labour politician) (born 1928), Irish Labour Party politician
- William J. Murphy (1912–1993), U.S. Democratic politician from Idaho
- William J. Murphy (Rhode Island politician) (born 1963), U.S. Democratic politician from Rhode Island
- William Samuel Murphy (1882–1961), Canadian politician
- William T. Murphy (1899–1978), American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois
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“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)