#politics

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#good #high #more #need #none

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#art #everywhere #finding #incorrectly #looking

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#art #development #find #knowledge #life

We seek in one another the assurance that there is just one correct interpretation of the world, that everything is so simple that anybody can see it unless they're malicious or stupid or willfully ignorant; and we punish one another for proving with our differing conclusions that the truth is not that easy. We think we must suppress dissension to present the unified front we need to gain power over our enemies. But there are pro-life Democrats, pro-choice Christians, feminists who love their families, and conservatives who care about poor people. ↗

— Alisa Harris

#politics #social-justice #faith

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#facing #i #i think #listening #now

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