Politics (n.) is largely incompatible with culture and a distraction to free spirits. Nevertheless, in a future state with free spirits ruling and taking 'comprehensive responsibility' for humankind, the state might serve to critique existing values and make conditions for future greatness.
Politics (n.) is that domain in which mankind is one of two things: A tool or an enemy.
Politics (n.) is a domain in which political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.
Politics (n.) devours all seriousness for really intellectual things.
Politics (n.) ceases to be the business of a gentleman, and may one day be found so vulgar as to be filed under "prostitution of the intellect."
Politics (n.) should concern no one but the statesman; a state where anyone else must attend to it is ill organized and deserves to perish by all these politicians; taking the state lightly will increasingly be a sign of spiritual superiority.
Politics (n.) is decided by bad reasoning, even in the greatest statesmen — no one is at home in what developed overnight, so political thinking is random improvisation on the world's urgent questions.
Politics (n.) becomes impudence and a lie when it is Christian, like a Christian leadership of an army that treats the "God of Hosts" as chief of staff; reformers in politics turn out as Machiavellian as any tyrant.