Quotes About Politics

Success"—if at all—is only temporary, and idealism is always flawed and fleeting. Hence the abiding need to engage in politics.

The challenges of a universal politics are double: first, to block the system's revival, the return to its exploitive and naturalizing machinery; second, to gesture to a life after the system, a life that is more just and egalitarian, but not without lack or alienation (a difficult pill for the Left to swallow—given its dream or fantasies of direct democracy, unalienated labor, and harmonious coexistence).

A negative universal politics, after all, aims at facing and working through our deadlocks, which always already confront us, even after "success." There is no triumph after victory, only more work, more struggle, more failure. "Success"—if at all—is only temporary, and idealism is always flawed and fleeting. Hence the abiding need to engage in politics.

Blaming Trump and the rise of the alt-right for antiblackness conveniently forgets that BLM came into existence during the "golden age" of the Obama presidency.

A universal politics thus cannot and must not denigrate sites of resistance that do not align immediately with the workers' struggle. Quite the contrary, it takes as axiomatic the shift from one revolutionary agent to "proletarian positions": "an explosive combination of different agents" is the path for a "new emancipatory politic." The challenge is how to unify these proletarian positions around a common struggle.

A passion for the commons revives the stakes of politics.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that's why it is best form of government.

Each thinking mind is a political mind."

Every political mean is imperfect."

From the day to till the day there are two humans living together they were and they will be involves in political process."

It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire [95].

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause; they are, as Lenin said, cogs and wheels in the whole revolutionary machine.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

The supposedly contending groups who run American society, Democrats and Republicans and Whigs and Democrats and Federalists and anti-Federalists, they really are part of the same elite group.

Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.