Able Quote by Irving Howe

“Today, serving neither religion nor political faith, philosophy is a subject without a subjuct matter, scolasticism without the charm of dogma.”

— John Gray

“Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher?”

— G.K. Chesterton

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

— John W. Campbell

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

— Louis Menand

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

— Carlos Fuentes

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses”

— Christopher Hitchens

“What I’ve come to find is that politics asks who is right, religion asks what is true, and nature asks nothing at all. It…

— Sam Loya

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

— Madame de Stael

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…

— Revilo P. Oliver

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

— Martin L Gross

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko