Politics Quotes

"Dependence is the normal situation."

"The national middle class should control wealth."

"We must go beyond nationalism."

"Economic independence is political independence."

"Nationalism is the single most precious thing."

"Colonialism is a wound that never fully heals."

"The dialectic of oppression and resistance defines human history."

"The colonizer's greatest weapon is the colonization of the mind."

"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."

"Orientalism is a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient"

"Political economy is the study of how power is distributed"

"Politics is the art of the possible"

"Politics is about deciding who gets what and why"

"Economic growth without environmental stewardship is merely the postponement of bankruptcy."

"Political power without moral foundation crumbles into dust."

"The subaltern cannot speak."

"The global South is not a place but a perspective."

"The postcolonial is not a historical period but an analytical position."

"The nation-state is not a natural form but a historical formation."

"The question of subjectivity is always a political question."

"The global South is not a victim but a complex actor."

"The colonizer has made himself a myth, and a myth cannot be destroyed by the truth."

"The colonizer's legacy crumbles when we reclaim our narratives."

"The greatest threat to our freedom and our democracy is a government that believes it is above the law."

"The military establishment is destroying the environment."

"Democracy does not guarantee environmental protection. What it does is allow people to fight for environmental protection."

"The colonized man is an angry man. His anger is explicit or implicit, and eats up all his energy."

"National bourgeoisies want to follow the Western path; we must not allow them to."

"Assimilation is a very pretty word which means the abandonment of particularity for universality."

"The conflict between bourgeoisie and proletariat is not present in the colonial sphere."