Constructs Quote by Jimenez Lai

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

Paradoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.

— Mark Kingwell

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

— John Dewey

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and…

— Ludwig von Mises

“One of the things that I find especially worrisome is the propensity for people to perceive reality as dyadic, comprised of two oppositional elements.…

— Brian Goedken

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia -…

— D. W Brogan

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

— William James

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.

— Roberto Unger

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

— Wallace Stevens

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

— David Remnick