Politics Quotes

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

14518 quotes

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"A nation divided by greed cannot be united by promises."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Politics is the art of dividing people who should be united."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Politics is the art of managing our discontent."
Haroldo Conti
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"Politics is the struggle for whose voice matters."
Haroldo Conti
"Politics is the art of choosing between lesser evils."
Gabriel García Márquez
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"Patriotism is nationalism dressed in respectable clothes."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The state exists to perpetuate itself, not to serve humanity."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The state is organized violence with a bureaucracy."
Fernando Vallejo
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"The city is a machine designed to process human hopes into disappointment."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"La política es el arte de compartir el poder sin destruir la sociedad"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"The political sphere is where philosophy must ultimately prove its worth."
Ernesto Sabato
"Politics is the struggle for the common good"
Leopoldo Lugones
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"History is written by those with ink and paper, but lived by those with only memories and suffering."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Those who profit from injustice will always call justice 'disorder' and peace 'revolution.'"
Alcides Arguedas
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"Colonialism did not end with independence; it merely changed its methods and became more insidious."
Alcides Arguedas
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"Power thrives in silence and darkness."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Power's greatest enemy is the documented fact."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Every suppressed document is a victory for power."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"Politics is the theater of the absurd made real."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Politics is the theater where hope dies slowly."
Juan Carlos Onetti
"Politics without ethics is merely the exercise of power for its own sake."
Leopoldo Lugones
"The difference between fighting for your country and fighting for your king is a very important difference indeed."
Julio Cortázar
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"The bourgeoisie fears the artist because the artist speaks uncomfortable truths."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The tyranny of the majority is more dangerous than the rule of a despot."
Ernesto Sabato
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble."
Luis Cernuda
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"Politics is the art of living together."
Rafael Alberti
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"Stories are the currency of resistance."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The personal narrative becomes political when it reveals systems."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The act of reading is a political act."
Jorge Luis Borges
"Politics is the arena where ideals meet reality."
Leopoldo Lugones