Quotes About Politics

The degree of unity aspired to in the total society is incompatible with human freedom and the right to disagree. Politics should be the mediation, not the suppression, of conflict.

Sacrifice is at the heart of both politics and family. Both parent and citizen understand themselves as subject to a demand for sacrifice. They recognise the demand as legitimate because they live in the world of meanings that the sacrificial act affirms. Sacrifice is, accordingly, the way of being in a meaningful world. Sacrifice, we say, is an act of love. In love, we are willing to sacrifice, and through that sacrifice we simultaneously create and discover the subject that we are.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

At last, he was being decisive once again. Playing for the highest stakes, shrugging off the inertia of the last few years. He felt almost as he had done as a child, thrilling in the audacity of his actions. That was how it had often been before politics and the stultifying role of John Mandrake had closed in on him. And he no longer wished to play that part.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I said precedents.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I set precedents.

He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Boris Nicolaïevitch, la démocratie, c'est bien, mais sans élections, c'est plus sûr »

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

Cuando M. Weber define el poder político como «dominación legítima ante obedientes», rechaza toda posible coherencia entre ética y política; las transforma en un maquiavelismo vulgar.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.

El fútbol es el bacilo de la guerra civil

El populismo exalta al líder carismático. No hay populismo sin la figura del hombre providencial que resolverá, de una buena vez y para siempre, los problemas del pueblo: