Quotes About Politics

Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics.

None of this is true. "Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. In assigning value to women in a vertical hierarchy according to a culturally imposed physical standard, it is an expression of power relations in which women must unnaturally compete for resources that men have appropriated for themselves.

Though many women realized that their attention was being focused in this way, fewer fully understood how thoroughly politically such focusing works: In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly.

It was the softest, sneakiest coup in history.

I am often called a "conspiracy theorist." The reason is simple. Unlike all but a very few other journalists or nonfiction writers, I've been a political consultant to a presidential campaign and advisor to a vice president. And as a result of those experiences, I know how the powerful react in a crisis — especially when their self-interest is involved.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means

We have a working majority of voters who have children's minds

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

What a mess the world is in. It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual.

Que un bibliotecario experimentado llagara a dirigir la Biblioteca Nacional de España, aunque solo fuese durante catorce meses, ha sido un accidente no premeditado al que las mentes preclaras que rigen nuestros destinos han puesto remedio, más cuando hay un sinfín de amiguetes y parientes con que cubrir el puesto.

el único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro. Y donde hay rebaños de borregos siempre aparecen lobos hambrientos.

La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados.

La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados. Allí pueden medrar, adquirir poder con que darse aires y sobre todo vengarse de todos aquellos que han logrado con su trabajo y su talento lo que ellos nunca han conseguido ni siquiera rozar al tiempo que declaran, con aire de santidad y sacrificio, que todo lo hacen por el servicio a la patria

En el poder las puñaladas nunca llegan de frente, siempre por la espalda y con un abrazo

These new Francoists are as tight as two coats of paint.

in 1972, the revelation that a vice-presidential candidate—George McGovern's running mate, Thomas Eagleton—had undergone psychotherapy was reason enough to have him removed from the ticket. The notion of working through a trauma therapeutically was still unfamiliar

My casual talk with my adult children brings with it another fleeting sadness: They are the age I was when it became, because of profound political differences, difficult for me to chat easily with my parents: vituperation always lurked. They and I later reconciled but those years of loss now add a special poignancy.

As Joseph Schumpeter remarked, you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, but you can fool enough of the people for long enough to do irreversible damage.

Do musical preferences predict political inclinations? Not long ago, an official with Pandora said that its predictions about those inclinations, based on zip code as well as musical choices, are between 75 and 80 percent accurate. And with that level of accuracy, it developed an advertising service "that would enable candidates and political organizations to target the majority of its 73 million active monthly Pandora listeners based on its sense of their political leanings.

If public opinion cannot express itself through political associations, newspapers, and electoral politics, it will be channeled into mob violence

Since the coat has absolutely no intrinsic value, Inspector, I must regretfully conclude that the choice lies between an outbreak of gesture politics or the damage being the work of a mind deranged.' Sloan tried another tack. 'And which would you think the more likely?' 'Malice or madness? I've no idea at all, Inspector.