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Political Quotes by Orhan Pamuk
- The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying…
- The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political…
- I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
- Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always…
- Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person…
- These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- 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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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 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
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle