#politics

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#anarchist #politics #experience

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#leave #local #long #minister #politics

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS. ↗

— Bono

#aids #both #got #politics #victims

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#bed #lie #make #must #you

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. ↗

— Chester Brown

#how #i #i think #important #interest

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#extension #politics #those #war #without

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? ↗

— LeVar Burton

#come #concern #division #how #politics