Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a … - Auberon Waugh

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It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

Auberon Waugh

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.

Emotional, Feelings, Handicapped, Help, Overcoming, Purpose

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The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

Bite, Holiday, Illness, Law, Paid, Suffering

When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.

Fists, Glenda, Know, Males, Men, Raised

There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Annoy, Equanimity, People, Sacred, World

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Abuse, Being Ignored, Contradicted, Exposed, Liars, Ridiculed

Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law

Business, Law, People, Rubbish