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Politics   /pˈɑlətˌɪks/   Listen
Politics

noun
1.
Social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power.  Synonym: political relation.
2.
The study of government of states and other political units.  Synonyms: government, political science.
3.
The profession devoted to governing and to political affairs.
4.
The opinion you hold with respect to political questions.  Synonym: political sympathies.
5.
The activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government.  "Government agencies multiplied beyond the control of representative politics"



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"Politics" Quotes from Famous Books



... and who had never been taken in. The penetration and the subtlety of Commynes make his work interesting chiefly for its psychological studies and for the light that it throws on those principles of cunning statecraft which permeated the politics and diplomacy of the age and were to receive their final exposition in the Prince of Machiavelli. In his calm, judicious, unaffected pages we can trace the first beginnings of that strange movement ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey
... Restalrig, whom he fancied to bear a striking resemblance to his dead mistress. On that hint he spake, and she became his wife. He proceeded to repair the house of Hawthornden, and would have spent his days there in great peace, had it not been for the distracted times. His politics were of the Royalist complexion; and the party in power, belonging to the Presbyterians, used every method to annoy him, compelling him, for instance, to furnish his quota of men and arms to support the cause which he opposed. In 1619, Ben Jonson visited him at Hawthornden. ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... together with indignant denunciation and argumentative subtlety, were thus summoned into exercise by the perils of the Nation, and the contentions of Party. Nevertheless, the local, the temporal, the conventional, and the individual, in all which relates to the science of politics or the tactics of partisanship,—are sufficient to excite and employ the energies and qualities which made the general parliamentary debates of Burke's period so captivating. But when we revert to his own speeches and writings, we at once ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... in the middle of the block. Here met, nearly every evening, the head ones of his flock for a little while to talk over religion and politics. Outsiders called it the "Amen Corner" ...
— Tess of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... nothing about politics," she answered, indifferently, "and we have had that box through our office ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens


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