Quotes About Politics

After all, they said, the French Fascists now in power had identical interests with the Germans. Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux—wolf does not eat wolf. Hitler's government and Laval's government were playing into each other's hands.

That gesture was intended as, in itself, a political act. And the editors were not simply proposing that modernist art and literature could be appreciated regardless of one's politics; they were committed to explaining why an appreciation for modernism was consistent with political progressivism.

Dreiser's literary faults, it gives us to understand, are essentially social and political virtues.

The liberal judgment of Dreiser and James goes back of politics, goes back to the cultural assumptions that make politics. We are still haunted by a kind of political fear of the intellect which Tocqueville observed in us more than a century ago.

It is the wide sense of the word that is nowadays forced upon us, for clearly it is no longer possible to think of politics except as the politics of culture, the organization of human life toward some end or other, toward the modification of sentiments, which is to say the quality of human life.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.