Politics Quotes

"Politics without principle is merely power-seeking."

"Politics is about who decides."

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime"

"Patriotism is a superstition artificially created to serve the interests of the ruling class"

"The personal is political; our daily choices shape society"

"The revolution will not be televised; it will be lived"

"Commerce is the thread that binds nations together."

"A nation's wealth is measured by the prosperity of its common people."

"A government that fears its people will inevitably fall."

"The strength of democracy lies in the participation of its citizens."

"A tyrant's greatest fear is an informed and united citizenry."

"A government exists to serve the people, not to rule them."

"Discourse is not simply that which translates struggles or systems of domination, but is the thing for which and by which there is struggle."

"Society is maintained not primarily through consensus but through the workings of power."

"Culture is not a transcendent realm above politics but imbricated within it."

"The boundary between the normal and the abnormal is not natural but politically drawn."

"Anarchism is the great liberator of humanity from the chains of superstition and authority."

"The state is an instrument of oppression dressed in the language of order."

"The wealthy tremble when workers begin to understand their own power."

"Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."

"Communism is not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself."

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism."

"All previous historical movements were movements of minorities."

"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly expanding markets."

"The state is the product of irreconcilable class antagonisms."

"Economic relations condition all forms of social and political life."

"The struggle between classes is the engine of historical development."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another."

"The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them."

"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism."