- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing that I learned from politics is you have to know how to watch your own back - and in some instances, you gotta watch your front, too.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
- Environmental Issues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually don't want to be an actor for the rest of my life. I'd like to go on to be a lawyer or a doctor, and I definitely would like to get into politics.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I’m going to use that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020