#politics

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#elitism #intellectualism #politics #populism #imagination

If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for. ↗

— Laurance Kitts

#freedom #politics #vision #freedom

He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament. ↗

— Carol K. Carr

#mystery #politics #faith

La politique au milieu des intérêts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. ↗

— Stendhal

#politics #imagination

Total paranoia is just total awareness. ↗

— Charles Manson

#inspirational #politics #inspirational

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#politics #turk #women #creativity

This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it. ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#government #politics #thievery #united-states #economy

The real satanist is not quite so easily recognized as such ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#politics #power #economy

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#mitch-mcconnell #politics #twitter #united-states #united-states-congress

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. -Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977) ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#international-relations #journalists #politics #journalist