Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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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
"Politics is the art of compromise."Gordon Moore
"The strength of democracy lies in its ability to incorporate diverse perspectives."John von Neumann
"Politics is the art of understanding what people need and serving that need."Donna Dubinsky
"Politics is the art of helping groups cooperate toward shared goals."Carver Mead
"Programming is an act of political and social importance."Richard Stallman
"Politics is the art of making necessary compromises without betraying principles."John von Neumann
"Politics reveals what humans will do when power is at stake."John von Neumann
"Politics requires moral courage."Tim Cook
"Politics must evolve to put the planet before profit."Sunita Narain
"Politics divorced from environmental ethics is politics without a future."Sunita Narain
"Intellectual property is a dangerous concept that grants monopolies over ideas themselves."Richard Stallman
"The concentration of power in technology companies represents a danger to democracy itself."Richard Stallman
"Politics should be about serving the people, not personal gain."Steve Wozniak
"The idea that property is inviolable is a dangerous myth that must be challenged"Richard Stallman
"DRM is a form of censorship that prevents legitimate use and modification"Richard Stallman
"We must fight to keep the internet a commons, not a corporate enclosure"Richard Stallman
"Patent trolls and copyright maximalists are enemies of innovation"Richard Stallman
"We are witnessing the privatization of what should be shared resources"Richard Stallman
"Digital imperialism occurs when corporations control the tools we depend on"Richard Stallman
"Software freedom is prerequisite for political freedom in the digital age"Richard Stallman
"Code is law, and the law should be written by the people"Richard Stallman
"Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is a social justice issue affecting the poorest first."Sunita Narain
"The so-called developing world is being asked to stay poor to keep the developed world rich and comfortable."Sunita Narain
"Corporate responsibility is an oxymoron when corporations profit from environmental destruction."Sunita Narain
"The debate about climate change is a debate about justice masked as a debate about science."Sunita Narain
"The wealthy have always been willing to sacrifice the environment for profit; the question is whether we will let them."Sunita Narain
"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