Abuse Quote by Larken Rose

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling,…

— Jon Meacham

“To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between—as well as people who think their actions are…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“I began to understand that ideologies necessarily push, pull, and tug at reality to make it fit the system. Even when they are committed…

— Siri Hustvedt

“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

— George Orwell

“Politics is the executive expression of human immaturity.”

— Vera Brittain

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod

“I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)”

— Mev Puleo

“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”

— Jacques Ellul

“In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people…

— Michael Wolff

“The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. —”

— Timothy Snyder