Politics Quotes

"Politics at its best is the noble art of achieving justice through compromise."

"Ontology is politics. What we say things are matters for how they can be treated."

"Politics is the art of deciding how we wish to live together."

"Politics is the arena where we negotiate what we owe each other."

"Feminism is about making the personal political and recognizing power operates at every scale."

"Feminist science studies reveals how power operates in the supposedly neutral domain of knowledge."

"The Capitalocene names more accurately the geological epoch we inhabit than the Anthropocene."

"The naturalization of sexual difference serves patriarchal interests, not natural law."

"Politics is ultimately about who gets to shape reality."

"The political always inheres in the personal and the bodily."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perceptions of injustice."

"The political is always personal, and the personal is always political in our embodied lives."

"The body is always political; there is no escape from power relations."

"The question of belonging is inseparable from the question of power."

"We must cultivate what I call 'affirmative nomadism' as a political and ethical stance."

"Climate change is not a nature problem; it is a political problem."

"Bureaucracy is a technology of social ordering."

"The proliferation of hybrids requires new political frameworks."

"Translation is the fundamental operation of all politics."

"The political is everywhere, not just in governments."

"Politics is the art of composing worlds."

"We must become sensitive to the politics of things."

"The distinction between centers and peripheries is always contestable."

"The question of who counts as a person is always a political question."

"The body is always already political, economic, social, and material all at once."

"We need a new politics of deceleration."

"The apparatus of bodily production is always a political apparatus."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"We cannot separate nature from politics; they are always entangled."