Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

14518 quotes

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"Snowball is the cause of every misfortune."
Squealer
O
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
Old Major
N
"Snowball is a traitor"
Napoleon
S
"Four legs good, two legs bad"
Squealer
S
"Four legs good, two legs bad."
Squealer
S
"Snowball had secretly worked with Jones all along!"
Squealer
S
"Frederick and Pilkington were secret enemies of Animalism."
Squealer
S
"All that we do, we do for Animalism."
Squealer
S
"Some pigs are more equal than others in their thinking"
Squealer
T
"Perhaps that's his greatest achievement—his ability to make us accept it."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
O
"The Republic of Gilead, I said. And felt, rather than heard, a kind of silence, like static."
Offred
O
"The republic of Gilead, I said, was founded on a fantasy."
Offred
T
"The war cannot be fought by women."
The Commander
T
"I do not know if the world knows the meaning of democracy."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
T
"Society demands that I deny my own reality."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
J
"We are two-legged wombs, that's all: conscious entities squirting out a new generation for the State."
Janine
S
"Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some."
Serena Joy
B
"Illusion is the very essence of politics."
Brother Jack
T
"America denies what is."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
B
"Politics is a thing that has to be done."
Brother Jack
B
"To refuse to participate is to fail to help create a new society."
Brother Jack
S
"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse, for some."
Serena Joy
O
"Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse, for some"
Offred
O
"The regime is not one thing, it is thousands of things"
Offred
T
"The Handmaids are the only ones left who can reproduce"
The Commander
R
"A woman's place is in the home."
Rasheed
R
"You see how she is? This is what happens when women are taught to think."
Rasheed
S
"Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some."
Serena Joy
T
"Society's rules are designed to protect its own order, not its people."
The Narrator (omniscient)
T
"Culture and custom have the power to destroy individuals."
The Narrator (omniscient)