Mandela Perspective

Fate is character. - William Winter

I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson

Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli

In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. - Molly Ivins

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Appropriate rules cultivate a disciplined character. - Bill Welker

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Some German words are so long that they have perspective. - Mark Twain

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

The woman who can create her own job is the one who will win fame and fortune. - Amelia Earhart

No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Your reputation is what you’re perceived to be, Your character is what you really are. - John Wooden

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. - Joan Baez

Politics, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. - Richard Armour

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs. - Joan Didion

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. - Unknown