Political Philosophers

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“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)

“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)