Politics Quotes

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

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"The personal struggles we face are connected to the political struggles of our time."
Naomi Klein
"We have all the solutions we need. What we lack is political will."
Bill McKibben
"Language is a place of struggle, and that is where change begins."
Audre Lorde
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"Silence is also a form of collaboration."
Arundhati Roy
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"The personal struggles we face are always connected to the political struggles of our time."
Arundhati Roy
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"The problem is not really the climate. The problem is the culture."
Greta Thunberg
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"We need system change, not climate change."
Greta Thunberg
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"Political will is a renewable resource."
Greta Thunberg
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"Individual action alone is not enough. We need systemic change."
Greta Thunberg
"Political will is the scarce resource, not renewable energy technology."
Bill McKibben
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"We cannot shop our way to sustainability; consumption is not activism."
Naomi Klein
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"The privatization of everything has failed us; some things must be public."
Naomi Klein
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"The personal and political are inseparable when we are fighting for survival."
Naomi Klein
"Industrial agriculture promises abundance but delivers scarcity, poverty, and hunger."
Vandana Shiva
"GMOs are not about feeding the hungry; they are about controlling the food supply."
Vandana Shiva
"Monoculture farming is the agricultural equivalent of a dictatorship."
Vandana Shiva
"The food crisis is ultimately a crisis of democracy and justice, not of production."
Vandana Shiva
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"The science is clear, but the politics remains complicated."
James Hansen
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"Politics must catch up with the science."
James Hansen
"The mountains are melting, and we're still arguing about whether they exist."
Bill McKibben
"We are engaged in a battle for the future; choosing sides is not optional."
Bill McKibben
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"The most dangerous addiction is not heroin or cocaine but the addiction to consumption itself."
Naomi Klein
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"The shock doctrine uses fear to push through unpopular policies."
Naomi Klein
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"Privatization is the theft of the commons dressed up as efficiency."
Naomi Klein
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"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out."
Arundhati Roy
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"You can't separate the personal from the political."
Arundhati Roy
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"The parks do not represent democracy; they represent the failure of democracy."
David Brower
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"The conflict between resource exploitation and resource preservation is the defining issue of our time."
David Brower
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"The corporate machine grinds on, indifferent to the lives it crushes."
David Brower
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"The most important environmental battle will be fought in the halls of power, not in nature."
James Hansen