- Political Views
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics Quotes
Voices on ideology, debate, and public life.
These politics quotes range from a personal statement linking radical belief to the character of one's work, to an observation that casual conversation about politics rarely gets taken too seriously. Together they capture politics as something people engage with unevenly, with real distance between everyday talk and lasting conviction.
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- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that there were more games having the courage to talk about more subversive topics. Talking about politics, sexuality, human relationships.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast.
- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted wounds.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am totally in favour of reform - but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in politics.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, 'Stay out of politics.' I didn't have any particular allegiance to any particular party.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020