Politics Quotes

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

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"Politics is the art of negotiating competing dreams."
Robert Wilson
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"Politics is how we decide what we value together."
Robert Wilson
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"Politics is the art of making the invisible conflict visible and manageable."
Robert Wilson
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"Politics is about the distribution of power and resources."
Leon Lederman
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"Politics is the practice of our shared humanity."
Simon van der Meer
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"Politics is the art of peaceful coexistence."
Simon van der Meer
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"Politics should never compromise scientific integrity."
François Englert
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"Politics without principle is merely the distribution of power without purpose."
Fred Hoyle
"Politics may divide us, but nature unites all who seek to understand her."
Carlo Rubbia
"Politics changes; but the constants of nature are eternal."
Carlo Rubbia
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"Politics should not interfere with the integrity of scientific inquiry."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Politics and science must remain separate for both to flourish."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Politics at its best serves the common good."
Stanley Cohen
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"Politics is the art of the possible."
Herbert Boyer
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"All politics is local."
Herbert Boyer
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"We must question which groups have the authority to define social problems."
Stanley Cohen
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"Politics shapes the world we live in."
Fred Sanger
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"Every political system reflects its people's values."
Fred Sanger
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"Politics is the art of compromise."
Fred Sanger
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"Political considerations should never compromise the integrity of scientific inquiry."
Shinya Yamanaka
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"Politics is the art of making people believe things that aren't true."
Kary Mullis
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"Politics should be guided by principles, not ambition."
John Kendrew
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"Moral entrepreneurs create deviance by making rules and then applying them."
Stanley Cohen
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"The control of deviance is an exercise in the production of conformity."
Stanley Cohen
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"Society maintains itself through the constant production and punishment of deviance."
Stanley Cohen
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"Political pressures should not compromise the integrity of scientific inquiry."
Fred Sanger
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"Scientific literacy is foundational to any functioning democracy in the modern world."
Jennifer Doudna
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"Society creates its own enemies through the process of categorization."
Stanley Cohen
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"Institutions manufacture consent through the creation of folk devils."
Stanley Cohen
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"Rules protect power more than people."
Stanley Cohen