Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
Thomas Mann1875–1955On German fascism, in “An Appeal to Reason” [“Deutsche Ansprache. Ein Appell an die Vernunft”] in Berliner Tageblatt (18 October 1930); as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter in Order of the Day, Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades (1942) …Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.- Mao Zedong1893–1976“在延安各界庆祝斯大林六十寿辰大会上的讲话” (“Speech marking the 60th birthday of Stalin”) (20 December 1939), later revised as “It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”
- Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 9, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Zedong1893–1976Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 2, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.- Mao Zedong1893–1976On the Question of Agricultural Co-Operation (July 31, 1955)
Herbert Marcuse1898–1979“Repressive Tolerance” (1965), in A Critique of Pure Tolerance, p. 109
José Martí1853–1895Martí: Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)- José Martí1853–1895The Monetary Conference of the American Republics (1891)
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 10, Section 1, p. 257.- Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 13, pg. 363.
- Karl Marx1818–1883Addenda, “Relative and Absolute Surplus Value” in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)
- Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 837.
- Karl Marx1818–1883Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859).
