"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought." ― John Jay Chapman Topic(s): Politics More From John Jay Chapman "Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth." "Politics is organized hatred, that is unity." "Good government is the outcome of private virtue." More In Politics "We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom."― Mohammed Morsi "London in the ’70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right."― Ian Mcewan "The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."― Fidel Castro