Quotes About Politics

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!