| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43058 |
| QUOTATION: | I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. “Direct Action,” ch. 2, Invertebrate Spain (1921). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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