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