Politics Quotes

"Every intellectual is a bearer of discourse that has political consequences."

"The intellectual function is to struggle against the forms of power responsible for creating discourse."

"Politics begins when we refuse to accept what is as what must be."

"Democracy is always to come; it is never fully realized in the present."

"Politics and art are intertwined in human existence."

"Art and politics are inseparable in human commitment."

"The political is not separate from the intimate; it infuses every relation."

"The state does not rule primarily through violence, but through normalization."

"Capitalism has learned to traffic in its own critique."

"Every statement is an order, and every order carries a kind of violence."

"Politics is the art of drawing new lines and new borders."

"Democracy is always to come, never fully present."

"Power knows itself most clearly in what it excludes."

"A minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, and fraud, is justified."

"We should not assume that government intervention always improves outcomes."

"There is no natural duty to obey the law simply because it is law."

"The minimal state protects negative rights but respects positive freedom."

"The minimal state is morally justified and anything more is unjustified."

"Consent is the basis of legitimate authority."

"The state must be neutral about citizens' conceptions of the good life."

"The minimal state emerges morally justified from a state of nature."

"The state lacks justification for extensive redistributive schemes."

"The minimal state respects persons as ends in themselves."

"The state should protect rights, not enforce any particular conception of justice."

"The minimal state alone is morally justified."

"The state exists to protect rights, not to engineer social outcomes."

"The state's power should be strictly limited to protecting rights."

"The minimal state protects negative rights without ensuring positive welfare."

"Individual rights are the foundation of any legitimate political order."

"Coercive redistribution cannot be morally justified."