Valentí Puig brings together and presents a delicious selection of quotes from all eras that remind us of the value of malice in the art of politics.
In times of virtual politics, not even the most sophisticated algorithms can replace the validity of politics as art, tragedy or fiasco. In political life there are interests —spurious or not—, passion, calculation, simulation. Thus, you can have the nobility of the human being aspiring to the common good or the rectilinear condition of power for power, at the cost of everything. Usually, politics is both things at the same time and that is why it is almost obligatory to practice it or observe it with malice. From Cicero to Walter Lippmann, from Diego de Saavedra Fajardo to Manuel Azaña or from Benjamin Franklin to Charles de Gaulle, protagonists and spectators of political history have formulated the principles of political malice with clairvoyant lucidity. Presented and selected by Valentí Puig, the quotes compiled in this book also serve as a warning, although they are almost never taken into account. Perhaps Alice already predicted it in her Wonderland when she said: "There is no use going back to yesterday, because then I was a different person."