Politics Quotes

"The law serves the interests of those who created it."

"Contradictions in capitalism contain the seeds of its destruction."

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not happier if the stick is called 'the People's Stick.'"

"Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice."

"Political power grows from moral authority and popular consent."

"Politics is the art of organizing human relations justly."

"State activity has expanded enormously, and there has been a consequent increase in the number and importance of career posts."

"The question of the intellectuals is intimately connected with the question of the state."

"The crisis of authority always appears as the collapse of the systems of representation and mediation."

"Political consciousness arises from the organization of daily struggles and grievances."

"The intellectuals produced by a ruling class serve to maintain its dominion over the subaltern groups."

"Taxation is robbery, pure and simple."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

"Woman's suffrage will not bring about the revolution we need."

"Government is founded on violence, and violence is its only means of existence."

"The state exists only to protect the interests of the wealthy."

"Society's laws are written by and for those in power."

"Discipline must be understood as a political anatomy of detail."

"Reality is not what gives rise to ideology; rather, ideology gives rise to reality."

"The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions."

"The bourgeoisie are incapable of understanding anything that contradicts their interests."

"The state is a tool; the question is whose tool it serves."

"Politics is the art of determining whose interests shall prevail."

"The most barren of all the sciences is politics."

"It is the province of legislation to prescribe the manner in which the people ought to act."

"All government is founded on opinion."

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal."

"The bourgeoisie produce their own gravediggers; its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."

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

"The national narrow-mindedness and indifference must disappear."