Politics Quote by Alaa Alghamdi

“Politics had eaten away at people's heads until they in turn had begun to devour one another.”

— Basma Abdel Aziz

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.”

— Tom Clancy

“In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of ideas was…

— Louis Menand

“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.”

— Michele Poague

“Whatever the liberal mood, the task of containing and utilizing conflict was never over, just as the task was never over of resisting power.…

— Edmund Fawcett

“Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.”

— James MacGregor Burns

“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.”

— Gioconda Belli

“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of greater absolutism.”

— Daron Acemoğlu