Politics Quotes

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

14518 quotes

"Great is the power of steady misrepresentation."
Charles Darwin
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"The personal is political; the political is personal."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The apparatus of bodily production would include all of the political apparatus."
Haraway, Donna
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"Politics is not separate from science; it is embedded within it."
Haraway, Donna
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"The personal is indeed political, and the political is always personal."
Haraway, Donna
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"Space is never neutral; it is always politicized."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Pleasure and desire are sites of political struggle."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The political is always personal, and the personal is always political."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"Time is a political category, not a neutral medium."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The personal archive is a political act."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The production of knowledge is always a political act."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The archive is a practice of resistance."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Pleasure is political. Joy is resistance."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"The personal is always already political."
Muñoz, José Esteban
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"Affirmative politics starts from what we can do, not from what we cannot do."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"Affirmative politics builds on what connects us, not what divides us."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"We are always already implicated in systems of power."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The political begins in the intimate and the personal."
Grosz, Elizabeth
G
"The personal is always already political and institutional."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The Anthropocene names our complicity and our responsibility."
Haraway, Donna
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"Feminism is about more and better connections, not purity."
Haraway, Donna
H
"The personal and the political are always entangled."
Haraway, Donna
H
"We are all implicated in the structures we seek to critique."
Haraway, Donna
A
"Politics is not separate from daily life; it lives in how we treat one another."
Ahmed, Sara
A
"Politics is the art of deciding who gets what, and we are all participants whether we acknowledge it or not."
Ahmed, Sara
M
"The personal is political, and the political is deeply personal."
Muñoz, José Esteban
B
"The political must be imagined as creative and transformative, not merely critical."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"We are always already implicated in systems of power and must act within and against them."
Braidotti, Rosi
B
"Affirmative politics builds rather than only opposes."
Braidotti, Rosi
L
"Politics is the art of managing human nature for collective benefit."
Law, John