Politics

"there is no point coming into politics if you wait for people to say, "This is popular" and say, "Well, I do it for you." The only reason to come into politics is to say, "This is where the world needs to be, follow me." Politics is a platform and you use it to educate. I think she was completely mad, but Thatcher never for a moment stopped educating. What she came out with was complete rubbish, but she used the position to ram home all these awful little middle England reactionary views, and never stopped. She always said it's a battle of ideas every minute of the day. She said, "This is what I want to do, now find me a way of presenting it, so we carry the public with us." That's the approach here."

- Ken Livingstone

Classically...

"Satiate your soul with Plutarch and when you believe in his heroes dare at the same time to believe in yourself."
- Nietzsche