Quotes about politics
529 quotes from 258 people
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Better Part (1901)
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 32, p. 837.
Shirley Chisholm1924–2005Unbought and Unbossed (1970), p. 104.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Ur-Fascism (1995)
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
John Buchan1875–1940A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. III, p. 83Brexit means Brexit, and we’re going to make a success of it.
Theresa Mayborn 1956Theresa May Says UK Will Make Success Of Brexit When She Is PM, Sky News—Youtube (11 July 2016).Britain is basically Pompeii if Pompeii had voted for the volcano.
John Oliverborn 1977Last Week Tonight (2014–present), On Brexit.Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Sunday Times (London, 10 May 1992)The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968Letter to Norman Thomas (25 September 1951)We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018National Book Awards, November 2014In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.
John Mearsheimerborn 1947“China’s Unpeaceful Rise”, Current History (2006) vol. 105 (690) p. 162To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
Antonio Gramsci1891–1937“Workers’ Democracy”, L’Ordine Nuovo (21 June 1919)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.Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)