Quotes About Politics

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

know you believe that the politics in London are especially uncivil, but you'll soon see that the style here in America is every bit as ferocious, and marked with backbiting, lies, deceit, and ill will.

We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.

I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.

The ruling of men was a dirty business—

When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.

Xi's management of COVID is today the third rail in Chinese politics—which landed him in prison for eighteen years on charges of corruption.109 Another well-known blogger, former Caijing editor Luo Changping, was detained in October 2021 for a new crime—that of defaming political martyrs—after questioning China's role in the Korean War in a critical review of the box-office-hit film The Battle at Lake Changjin.110

It's still not clear that the South lost the war," said Diane. "It's driving the national agenda, after all. You can see it with Trump; that's the same population who elected George Wallace.

If Obama was the American dream—"Nowhere else on earth would my story be possible"—Trump is the American nightmare.

What drives me nuts about Southern Republicans," said Wilson, "is the way they rail against the federal government while taking more federal tax money than any other part of the country.

The achievements of Obama's presidency, especially impressive in the face of massive opposition to every move he made, undermined the last rationalizations for white supremacy—which is just what provoked the massive backlash that led to the election of the least qualified man ever to approach the White House.

I will argue that the 2016 election resulted, in large part, from America's failure to confront its own history.

And there's no doubt that the presence of a black family in the White House enraged a sufficient number of Americans to insure the election of a swindling, violent successor whose policies, such as they are, are at odds with the interests of all but a handful of billionaires.

The library is a magnificent institution which nothing can hinder . . . except peanut politics

The link between foreign-exchange transactions, art, and armaments hadn't gone unnoticed by Hoover.

The idea that sport and politics do not mix is ridiculous. It's like a child repeating, I am not afraid, I am not afraid, I am not afraid. If you keep repeating something, it's not because you believe it but because you want to convince yourself it is true."

There are politics in sexual relationships because they occur in the context of a society that assigns power based on gender and other systems of inequality and privilege.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

They also created huge balls made of paper and tin—some of them more than ten feet wide, covered with political slogans—and rolled them from town to town, symbolizing Harrison's growing momentum and adding the phrase "keep the ball rolling" to the American idiom.

the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne's own camp.

When a young woman discovers her power, both sexual and intellectual, she unleashes her own voice, her righteousness. The first things she has to jettison are the Devil and any religious representation of her gender as stained or subservient. She's just naturally going to be attracted to Goddesses or witches or, as in my case, a scientific understanding of the body and a historical view of sexual politics.

It's a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome," he explains. "Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need.

However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience is mine.