Politics Quotes

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"The danger of totalitarianism is that it tries to make people identical, destroying human plurality."

"Propaganda works by repetition and the suppression of alternative voices."

"History is the only real teacher of politics."

"The distinction between right and left in politics is becoming meaningless."

"The greatest threat to democracy is the loss of common sense."

"The political animal is the only animal that can ask for forgiveness."

"To be political is to care about what is common; indifference is a political catastrophe."

"The human condition is fundamentally political; we cannot escape it."

"The modern world has created new forms of totalitarianism without recognizing them."

"The loss of common sense is the beginning of totalitarianism."

"Is patriotism a virtue? I would answer roundly, No. Patriotism, in the sense of devotion to a particular nation, is not a virtue."

"In the sphere of public affairs, right opinion can do much, and wrong opinion can do much harm."

"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."

"The first prerequisite for a sound monetary system is that it should be subject to the control of the democratic government of the moment, not to the caprice of a few financiers."

"In the field of public affairs, men with principles are either wiser or more foolish than those without them."

"Politics is the art of imposing one's will on others."

"Democracy is not a form of government; it is a form of prayer."

"Politics divorced from ethics becomes mere power struggle."

"The ideological state apparatuses function massively and predominantly by ideology."

"All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects."

"The bourgeoisie produces a world after its own image."

"The revolution must become permanent."

"The personal is not political; the personal is ideological."

"Revolution requires theory and practice."

"Forgetting is also a political act."

"Democracy is an ongoing struggle."

"The state is not neutral."

"Capitalism creates its own gravediggers."

"The working class is the revolutionary subject."