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Politics at University of Oxford

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: social
University website: www.ox.ac.uk
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Politics
Politics (from Greek: πολιτικά, translit. Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Money and generous benefits can easily alter a person’s political outlook. Ideology follows the money.
L.K. Samuels, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, Cobden Press (2013) p. 301.
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Here the two great interests IMPERIUM ET LIBERTAS, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688) Divi Britannici, p. 849. (1675).
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle, Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2).
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