Quotes by Auden, W. H.

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. >>

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against >>

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child. >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. >>

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who >>

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find >>

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

Auden, W. H.