“Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.”

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Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Politics always change. Stories never do.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.”

Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate

TV appearances
Context: Eddie Izzard: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, "Do you have any Jewish people in your house?" and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.
Christine O'Donnell: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!
Bill Maher: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.
Christine O'Donnell: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.

“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”

Evelyn Beatrice Hall book The Friends of Voltaire

Source: The Friends of Voltaire (1906), Ch. 7 : Helvétius : The Contradiction, p. 188

“You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.”

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

229H:3:2
Sermons

“You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

"Putin’s War of Words" https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/world/europe/vladimir-putin-war-of-words.html, New York Times, 5 December 2022 <br class="br">2010s, 2014