#politic

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hats #into #out #politicians #pull

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#being #bit #fiction #get #i

If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#casting #come #down #high-school #kids

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #democratic system #effect #enough #moment

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#agree #any #beach #blank #casting

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#i #imagine #involvement #kind #myself

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#others #politics #right #science #wrong

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#attitude #conditions #definite #despised #forced

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#advance #developments #foreign #i #informed