Aspect Quote by Edward Said

What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.

— John McDonnell

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

— John Grierson

“Politics is no exception, and, by its very nature, would tend to attract more of the pathological “dominator types” than other fields. That is…

— Andrzej Lobaczewski

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

— Felix Frankfurter

“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,…

— Charles Krauthammer

I am not a propagandist; my work has often had a political dimension but, hopefully, one that is not didactic and is open to…

— Cornelia Parker

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The proliferation of nominalizations in a discursive formation may be an indication of a tendency toward pomposity and abstraction.”

— Harold Evans

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”

— Ambrose Bierce