Politics Quotes

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

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"The revolution eats its own children"
Shevek
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"The personal and the political are not divisible"
Takver
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"The revolution must be perpetual or it becomes tyranny"
Shevek
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"The idea of individual property is poison"
Odo
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"The revolution eats its children"
Shevek
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"Property is theft from the commons"
Odo
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"We are the people of the dispossessed world"
Shevek
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"We are the people"
Takver
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"One cannot buy the revolution"
Shevek
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"The personal is political"
Takver
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"Revolution is perpetual"
Shevek
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"The private conscience is an ineffective tool of social change"
Shevek
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"Fear and greed are the engines of the capitalist economy"
Shevek
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"The system is not the solution, it is the problem"
Shevek
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"The price of order is eternal vigilance"
Shevek
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"The personal is inescapably political"
Takver
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"The rich are not above the law; they simply have better lawyers."
Mikael Blomkvist
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"The people are the revolution."
Takver
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"We are the people of the world. Not the government, the people."
Shevek
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"Politics without ethics is tyranny"
Takver
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Zarathustra
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Zarathustra
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"The time for small politics is past; the very next century will bring the fight for the dominion of the earth."
Zarathustra
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"I call him false who speaks of popular rights and of the rabble as if they were the end in themselves."
Zarathustra
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Zarathustra
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Zarathustra
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"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Zarathustra
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"Many too many are born; for the superfluous the state was invented."
Zarathustra