Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"Politics should serve the people."
Laura Esquivel
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"The personal is political, and the political is personal."
Nellie Campobello
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"Language is a tool of power, and those who control it control society."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The most radical act is to live authentically in an inauthentic world."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The voice of the marginalized is the conscience of society."
Rosario Castellanos
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"The duty of every citizen is to love their country, but that love must not blind them to its faults."
Ariel Dorfman
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"We are all victims and perpetrators of the systems we inhabit."
Ariel Dorfman
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"The masses are moved not by logic but by passion and necessity."
Mariano Azuela
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"The revolution promises paradise but often delivers only new suffering."
Mariano Azuela
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"Revolution is merely the substitution of one tyranny for another until wisdom prevails."
Mariano Azuela
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"The poor man's revolution is the rich man's terror."
Mariano Azuela
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"Politics without poetry becomes tyranny; poetry without politics becomes escapism."
Octavio Paz
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"The revolution must be total or it will not be at all."
Octavio Paz
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"Every society creates the poetry it deserves and the poets it requires."
Octavio Paz
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"Every epoch reveals itself in the poetry it produces and the poetry it represses."
Octavio Paz
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"Political power without moral foundation is merely organized violence"
Carlos Fuentes
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"To understand a nation, read its novels before reading its laws"
Carlos Fuentes
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"The true conservative is one who seeks to conserve freedom, not tradition"
Carlos Fuentes
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"The ultimate political act is the refusal to be silent"
Carlos Fuentes
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"The strength of democracy lies in its weakness, in its vulnerability to criticism"
Carlos Fuentes
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"Politics without compassion becomes a game of dominion."
Laura Esquivel
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"Democracy requires constant vigilance and participation"
Ariel Dorfman
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"The personal is always political"
Ariel Dorfman
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"The personal story is a political act"
Ariel Dorfman
"Politics is the art of making enemies into allies temporarily"
José Donoso
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"The corridors of power are built on the bones of the forgotten."
Mariano Azuela
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"A government that fears literature fears its own people."
Mariano Azuela
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"La política debe servir al pueblo, no al poder."
Mariano Latorre
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"The revolution begins in the kitchen, with small acts of daily resistance."
Laura Esquivel
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"The political act begins with imagination."
Octavio Paz