Imagination Quote by Lionel Trilling

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

— Ian Mcewan

“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but…

— Richard Kearney

Politics should seize the imagination.

— George Packer

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant,…

— Michel Foucault

You may not think about politics, but politics think about you.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

— Kerry Washington

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should…

— Bertrand Russell

Politics is like the air we breathe, we must learn to master its use or we will be mastered.

— Anonymous

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift…

— Georgi Plekhanov

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without…

— Anonymous

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

— Martha C. Nussbaum