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Political Quotes by Jose Saramago
- It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
- 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…
- I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
- 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…
- 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…
- I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle