Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

14518 quotes

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"Politics will be transformed when we understand that we're all part of interconnected systems we can't control alone."
Carver Mead
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"Politics is the art of compromise."
Gordon Moore
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"The strength of democracy lies in its ability to incorporate diverse perspectives."
John von Neumann
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"Politics is the art of understanding what people need and serving that need."
Donna Dubinsky
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"Politics is the art of helping groups cooperate toward shared goals."
Carver Mead
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"Programming is an act of political and social importance."
Richard Stallman
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"Politics is the art of making necessary compromises without betraying principles."
John von Neumann
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"Politics reveals what humans will do when power is at stake."
John von Neumann
"Politics requires moral courage."
Tim Cook
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"Politics must evolve to put the planet before profit."
Sunita Narain
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"Politics divorced from environmental ethics is politics without a future."
Sunita Narain
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"Intellectual property is a dangerous concept that grants monopolies over ideas themselves."
Richard Stallman
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"The concentration of power in technology companies represents a danger to democracy itself."
Richard Stallman
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"Politics should be about serving the people, not personal gain."
Steve Wozniak
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"The idea that property is inviolable is a dangerous myth that must be challenged"
Richard Stallman
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"DRM is a form of censorship that prevents legitimate use and modification"
Richard Stallman
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"We must fight to keep the internet a commons, not a corporate enclosure"
Richard Stallman
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"Patent trolls and copyright maximalists are enemies of innovation"
Richard Stallman
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"We are witnessing the privatization of what should be shared resources"
Richard Stallman
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"Digital imperialism occurs when corporations control the tools we depend on"
Richard Stallman
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"Software freedom is prerequisite for political freedom in the digital age"
Richard Stallman
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"Code is law, and the law should be written by the people"
Richard Stallman
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"Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is a social justice issue affecting the poorest first."
Sunita Narain
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"The so-called developing world is being asked to stay poor to keep the developed world rich and comfortable."
Sunita Narain
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"Corporate responsibility is an oxymoron when corporations profit from environmental destruction."
Sunita Narain
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"The debate about climate change is a debate about justice masked as a debate about science."
Sunita Narain
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"The wealthy have always been willing to sacrifice the environment for profit; the question is whether we will let them."
Sunita Narain
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"Politics in the workplace poisons everything it touches."
Reed Hastings
"There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact is a political event."
R.D. Laing
"Society is a conspiracy against the truth."
R.D. Laing