- 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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- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
A week is a long time in politics.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
- Colonization
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
- Cited
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- Nov 07, 2020
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- Those
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020