Ernest Hemingway on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Ernest Hemingway, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #247202: "I know monks masturbate at night That pet cats screw That some girls bite And yet What can I do To set things right?"
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, entry #68090: "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge …"
4 Quotes by Ernest Hemingway on Politics
"I know monks masturbate at night That pet cats screw That some girls bite And yet What can I do To set things right?"
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
"Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about."
"All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness."