Quotes About Politics

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

To save our democracy, we must restructure our economy to make us equal Americans.

I hate that 74 million of my compatriots voted to keep in power our worst president, who convinced most of them that the election was stolen. The stab in the back will fester in their minds for years, a threat to the rest of us. But it's too easy to be riveted to that disturbing number and forget the 81 million who voted him out.

Critical theory upends the universal values of the Enlightenment: objectivity, rationality, science, equality and freedom of the individual. These liberal values are an ideology by which dominant groups subjugate other groups. All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power.

All relations are power relations, everything is political, and claims of reason and truth are social constructs that maintain those in power. Unlike orthodox Marxism, critical theory is concerned with language and identity more than with material conditions.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

The city?" Tyrion was lost. "What city would that be?" "King's Landing. I am sending you to court." It was the last thing Tyrion Lannister would ever have anticipated. He reached for his wine, considered for a moment as he sipped. "And what am I to do there?" "Rule," his father said curtly.

It is being common-born that is dangerous, when the great lords play their game of thrones.

Cuando se juega al juego de tronos sólo se puede ganar o morir. No hay puntos intermedios. Cersei Lannister

The king eats, they say, and the Hand takes the shit.

The Red Keep shelters two sorts of people, Lord Eddard, Varys said. Those who are loyal to the realm, and those who are loyal only to themselves.

No one who wears a crown is ever safe.