Politics Quotes

"Culture and politics are inseparable."

"Colonialism is a disease of the human spirit."

"Politics should serve humanity's highest aspirations, not the lowest ambitions of the few."

"We must be suspicious of the desire to help the third world without understanding our own investments."

"Power circulates through the most subtle forms of representation."

"Language both reveals and conceals the structures of power within which it operates."

"We must question the narratives that position certain groups as natural subjects of history."

"The true revolutionary act is to say 'no' to the system, not to reform it."

"Militarization and the arms race divert resources from where they are needed most: in education and healthcare."

"State of exception is the rule in modern politics."

"The state decides who lives and who dies."

"We are always already in the state of exception."

"We are living in the age of the spectacle."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is the only thing that will give us an international dimension."

"National bourgeoisie who are going to assume power in the post-colonial state practice sport in a strikingly hygenic manner."

"African socialism is a living reality, expressed in the millions of Africans practicing collectivity."

"Medicine and healing are political acts in a colonial context."

"The nation does not exist in the program which is written for it."

"The middle class that has come to power uses its class aggressiveness to mask its fundamental neo-colonial dependence."

"Nationalism, if we do not make careful distinctions, is a toxic thing."

"The national struggle is not economic or cultural or political."

"The colonial writer who attempts to speak of culture is immediately caught in the web of ideological presuppositions."

"Nationalism and imperialism are often intertwined in complex and troubling ways."

"Culture and politics cannot be separated; every cultural act has political implications."

"Molecular revolutions precede molar transformations."

"Every utterance is a political statement."

"Capital deterritorializes only to reterritorialize on its own terms."

"The psychiatric establishment is a machine for normalizing dissent."

"To understand capital is to understand the logic of infinite accumulation."