Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"The problem of Spain is the problem of European civilization itself."Miguel de Unamuno
"The voice of the people is the voice of truth, though it sometimes whispers."Antonio Machado
"Politics is the art of the possible, not the ideal."Salvatore Quasimodo
"Politics is the compromise between what is and what should be."Salvatore Quasimodo
"Political power, like morning dew, evaporates under the heat of time."Luis de Góngora
"Political intrigue is but the shadow play of deeper human desires."Luis de Góngora
"Politics is war by other means, equally destructive."Ungaretti
"Politics divides; poetry unites."Ungaretti
"The politician speaks truth to power while serving power."Francisco de Quevedo
"Politics is the art of the possible."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."Miguel de Unamuno
"The voice of the people is the voice of God."Miguel de Unamuno
"A nation without a vision is a nation without a future."Miguel de Unamuno
"La política sin ética es el arte de la corrupción."Garcilaso de la Vega
"Politics is the battlefield where ideas contend for supremacy."Ungaretti
"Politics reveals the truth about human nature."Ungaretti
"Power without culture is barbarism; culture without power is futility."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Politics is the art of organizing human contradiction."Eugenio Montale
"Politics is the art of making enemies into the appearance of friends."Francisco de Quevedo
"Politics is the art of the possible"Federigo Tozzi
"Politics shapes the future of nations"Federigo Tozzi
"Politics is the art of distributing disappointment equally"Ungaretti
"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable."Eugenio Montale
"The politician who truly loves his people is rarer than the political scientist believes."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Politics is the art of disappointing people systematically and with great purpose."Garcilaso de la Vega
"Politics is the art of human coexistence."Elio Vittorini
"Politics shapes our shared world."Elio Vittorini
"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable."Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"The bourgeoisie is dying; it is rotting away; it is falling into pieces."Pier Paolo Pasolini
"Politics without principle is a dangerous game."Pier Paolo Pasolini