Quotes About Politics

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Federico Pinedo: "Representamos la tendencia más en concordancia con la civilización cosmopolita y, más que todo, con la civilización europea. Somos el factor más indicado para impedir el predominio de los elementos indígenas que hoy vuelven a pesar en la política argentina desenterrados por la práctica inconsciente del sufragio universal".

Durante las manifestaciones de la izquierda peronista se cantaría "Si Evita viviera, Isabel sería copera".

Perón utilizó a la juventud y a la izquierda para romper su aislamiento en el exilio. Los llamó la "nueva estrella" del movimiento. Pero una vez en el poder decidió, por propia voluntad, combatir a la izquierda revolucionaria y para eso le dio amplios poderes al ministro de Bienestar Social, José López Rega.

La historia que nos enseñan, siempre dispuesta a defender las políticas de Buenos Aires, pretende que la reunión de Guayaquil fue "misteriosa" y sugiere una supuesta intervención de la masonería. También se ha hecho hincapié en la "altanera soberbia" de Bolívar en contraste con el "humilde y ejemplar renunciamiento" de nuestro San Martín.

No se podía andar por el mundo mendigando piezas arqueológicas robadas por expresidentes, sin que de vez en cuando no se sintiera un profundo ramalazo de pinche vergüenza nacional.

En el gran vacío político que deja la desaparición de los numerosos cuadros de la independencia muertos en diez años de terrible guerra, el desastre de la falsa salida imperial iturbidista y la posterior vida frágil de la titubeante y dividida república, Santa Anna asciende, se eleva, se vuelve útil e indispensable. Irineo Paz dirá: «El gran Santa Anna, que por fuerza tenía que ser grande cuando lo rodeaban tantos peque

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause. - Padme Amidala - Tory MPs have voted down a bid to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas giants that could save families £600. Despite Brits facing a cost of living crisis, Conservatives rejected a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech backing a one-off levy on North Sea firms to help struggling Brits. MPs rejected the move by 310 votes to 248, and not one Tory MP backed it.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

one ever seems to actually do anything but talk. Watching the bureaucracy, it is easy to understand how Hitler was able to walk over Europe while the West dithered.

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.

Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,' Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the confused inheritance of Mexico from colonial rule, and the failure of its many political and socio-economic programmes, derived from Enlightenment principles of secularism and reason. Paz himself was convinced that Mexico had to forge a modern politics and economy for itself.

What's crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for indulging abstract theories.

equally eagerly from the nineteenth-century polymath Herbert Spencer, the first truly global thinker – who, after reading Darwin, coined the term 'survival of the fittest'. Hitler revered Atatürk (literally, 'the father of the Turks') as his guru; Lenin and Gramsci were keen on Taylorism, or 'Americanism'; American New Dealers later adapted Mussolini's 'corporatism'.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Çok, çok olduklar? ölçüde, "kendini evinde hissetmeme" duygusunu paylaÅŸanlar ve asl?nda bu deneyimi kendi toplumsal ve politik pratiklerinin merkezine yerleÅŸtirenlerden oluÅŸur.

I am blessed to live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. But the democracy I cherish is constantly threatened by a brand of politics that clothes avarice and the arrogance of power in patriotic and religious garb.

During the Civil War, traumatized combatants developed a condition that they called "soldier's heart."8 The violence that results in soldier's heart shatters a person's sense of self and community, and war is not the only setting in which violence is done: violence is done whenever we violate another's integrity. Thus we do violence in politics when we demonize the opposition or ignore urgent human needs in favor of politically expedient decisions.

If the end of tension is what you want, fascism is the thing for you.

Taken to extremes, scapegoating feeds the political pathology called fascism, a movement ideology centered on a "radical and authoritarian nationalism" that actively suppresses "openness and opposition" to the movement and the nation-state it hopes to commandeer.15 When this diseased brand of nationalism rushes in to fill our inner emptiness, its mildest manifestation is the belief that nation's critics are unpatriotic, even traitorous. At

We grow up in educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, and as a result we become adults who treat politics as a spectator sport.