"The Parish: A Satire"
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
"Ben Carson announces, brings his celebrity to 2016 race" http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/04/politics/ben-carson-2016-presidential-announcement/, CNN (May 4, 2015)
Statement of 1925, as quoted in Lord Reading (1967) by H. Montgomery Hyde, p. 387.
“Coffee, which makes the politician wise,
And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.”
Canto III, line 117.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
“Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.”
"Eliot and Conservatism" (p. 194)
A Political Philosophy (2006)
“The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”
Page 269.
Stepping Westward (1965)
“Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population.”
Spark (2014)
Context: Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)
