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