Politics Quotes

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

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"We are all complicit in the system that destroys us."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Consumption is the new religion, and we are all its priests."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The body is where politics becomes personal."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Democracy requires citizens who think, not merely consumers."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"To understand politics is to understand human nature in its rawest form."
Elio Vittorini
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"Politics cannot be separated from human responsibility."
Primo Levi
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"Politics is the art of making enemies into temporary allies."
Dino Buzzati
"Politics is the art of making enemies invisible."
Italo Svevo
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"Politics is the struggle between competing visions of human dignity."
Elsa Morante
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"Architecture is a political act."
Umberto Eco
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Umberto Eco
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"Consumerism has replaced ideology; we are what we buy, not what we believe."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"The politician must be held accountable by history."
Primo Levi
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"Every revolution begins in the heart of someone who dared to question."
Elsa Morante
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"The fascism of tomorrow will be called the name of humanism."
Cesare Pavese
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"Politics is the art of making enemies out of neighbors."
Dino Buzzati
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"Politics is the art of human coexistence."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Politics shapes the world we inhabit."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"We need enemies to exist"
Umberto Eco
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"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable"
Umberto Eco
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"Politics is the struggle for meaning in a meaningless world"
Umberto Eco
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"Politics shapes the destiny of peoples."
Giosue Carducci
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"Politics should serve the common good."
Giosue Carducci
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"Politics is the art of compelling others toward your vision."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Politics shapes the world we live in."
Giovanni Verga
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"Politics is the art of the possible, limited by our imagination."
Italo Calvino
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"The bureaucracy of life leaves no room for the exceptional."
Dino Buzzati
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"Every society contains within it the seeds of its own destruction."
Dino Buzzati
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"Political power without moral foundation crumbles into tyranny."
Giosue Carducci
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"Politics should serve the common good, not private interests."
Alessandro Manzoni