Politics Quotes

"Every representation creates hierarchies and silences"

"Politics is never absent from cultural expression"

"Culture is a site of struggle for meaning and legitimacy"

"Culture is where ideology becomes invisible"

"The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation is not writing an adventure story accepted in two weeks by the newspapers."

"We must leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere."

"The national bourgeoisie should not be allowed to have hooks into the management of the state apparatus."

"The national bourgeoisie will be greatly helped on its way toward damnation by the extensions of spectacular corruption."

"Every colonized person takes a very simple attitude toward the colonial and toward the colonization."

"We should flatly refuse the new national bourgeoisie the right to organize the nation."

"Nationalism, if it is not democratic, if it is not open to all the anxieties of the people, will lead to fascism."

"The national bourgeoisie lacks the means, the resources and, above all, the time to accomplish its historical mission."

"Treason is a political act."

"Independence is a political issue; it becomes a democratic demand."

"The molecular revolution must accompany any genuine political transformation."

"Capitalism functions through the production of subjectivity and meaning."

"Micropolitics shapes all aspects of existence, from the personal to the global."

"The production of reality is always political, never neutral or innocent."

"The personal and the political are inseparable; all therapy is political."

"The production of culture is a terrain of political struggle and contestation."

"Every society controls its docile populations through smooth mechanisms"

"Society functions through the capture of desire"

"The problem is not power but how we organize ourselves in relation to it"

"The problem is never one of insufficient democracy but of reimagining democracy itself"

"The state of exception is not a space devoid of law, but rather a space where law is suspended in order to preserve itself."

"The bare life is the life stripped of all political and social meaning, yet it remains the foundation of all political questions."

"We are living in a time when the exception has become the rule, when the abnormal is normalized."

"The question of life and death is not a biological question but a political one."

"The camp is not an exception but the truth of modern politics revealed."

"The most political act is to reclaim what has been deemed unspeakable."