Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"Establishing standards is a political process of enrolling and coordinating diverse interests."Callon, Michel
"To understand society, we must follow the actors and the networks they create."Callon, Michel
"Politics is not a domain that contains society; it is what allows for the composition of the common world."Latour, Bruno
"To be political is to gather, to assemble, to make a world in common."Latour, Bruno
"The parliament of things must include not just humans but all the entities that compose our world."Latour, Bruno
"Politics must become the art of assembling the diverse elements that compose our world."Latour, Bruno
"Contemporary capitalism thrives on creating insatiable desires disguised as needs."Hartmut, Rosa
"Authenticity has become the ultimate consumer commodity in late capitalism."Hartmut, Rosa
"We have built a civilization that celebrates what is worst in human nature."Hartmut, Rosa
"Modern societies produce unprecedented material wealth alongside unprecedented spiritual poverty."Hartmut, Rosa
"The personal is always political; how we live our private lives reflects and shapes public reality."hooks, bell
"There is no such thing as a private life which doesn't affect the public one."Rich, Adrienne
"Living as we live and should live involves political choices at every instant."Rich, Adrienne
"The personal narrative is a political act."Rich, Adrienne
"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night."Davis, Angela
"Feminism demands a fundamental transformation of society."Davis, Angela
"The personal is political, and the political is personal."Davis, Angela
"We cannot compartmentalize our struggle for justice."Davis, Angela
"The state uses many instruments to maintain control."Davis, Angela
"The personal act of resistance is a political act."Davis, Angela
"Language is not neutral; it carries the weight of patriarchal structures."Wittig, Monique
"The personal is political, and the political is personal."Wittig, Monique
"Heterosexuality is not destiny but a political system."Wittig, Monique
"One cannot be neutral about structures of power."Wittig, Monique
"Oppression is embedded in the structures of language itself."Wittig, Monique
"Language is the battlefield where freedom is won or lost."Wittig, Monique
"The personal archive becomes political testimony."Wittig, Monique
"Oppression shapes language; liberation requires new language."Wittig, Monique
"The personal story is the strongest challenge to ideology."Wittig, Monique
"Democracy depends on the ability to contest norms through public deliberation."Fraser, Nancy