Quotes About Politics

What is going on in America today is not just a political contest; it is a spiritual contest.

We need to break free of the rationalism constraining our politics over the last few decades; such rationalism is too narrow to adequately describe our real problems or to adequately address them.

Our government has become a system of legalized bribery

political disengagement no longer an option for any serious person.

That is why a new American revolution is a revolution of consciousness, and a new American politics is a politics of love.

The biggest problem we have collectively is that our politics lag behind.

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.

Every day, as a Christian, I feel more deeply that the faith is slandered by those people who call America a Christian nation.

Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted.

The Communists and Socialists, those misguided liberals, must be fought against, and that takes money.

Yo no quería creer que hubiera traicionado a su compañero de toda la vida. Bueno, la política es eso, abrirse camino entre cadáveres.

todo socialismo, al poner en marcha la planificación económica, al acabar con la competencia y la propiedad privada, establece automáticamente un mecanismo que a la corta o a la larga liquida el pluralismo político y las libertades, lo quieran o no los planificadores.

When you start looking for purity in politics, you eventually get to unreality.

Con dogmáticos o con inteligentes, el Perú estará siempre jodido —dijo Carlitos—. Este país empezó mal y acabará mal. Como nosotros, Zavalita.

Las ideas de Aron eran coherentes e indiscutibles: no es idóneo defender, de un lado, el liberalismo y la democracia, y, de otro, una política imperialista y colonial contra un pueblo que reclama su derecho a ser independiente.

patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

El liberalismo representa la forma más radical de democracia.

el sentido común es la más valiosa de las virtudes políticas.

Es una lástima que habiendo podido ser el Felipe González del Perú te empeñes en ser nuestro Salvador Allende, o, peor aún, nuestro Fidel Castro. ¿No va el mundo por otros rumbos?». Naturalmente

Neue Züricher Zeitung 07.07.2016: Menschen aus völlig unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern mit völlig unterschiedlicher Motivation stemmen sich gegen das Unüberschaubare, das Unberechenbare, gegen Globalisierung und Kapitalismus – und zwar buchstäblich mit den Ideen der Steinzeit.

Resulta increíble que filósofos respetables, como Merleau-Ponty en su libro Humanisme et terreur, validaran esas monstruosidades jurídicas —verdaderos asesinatos legales—en nombre de la «verdad esencial» de la lucha de clases y del partido comunista como representante y vanguardia del proletariado.

I saw Borges very few times. The first time was in Paris, when I was a journalist. I went to interview him and was so impressed I could not speak. I remember one of the questions I asked him was What do you think of politics? He gave me an answer I have always remembered. He told me it was una de las formas del tedio (one of the forms of tedium).