Ideas Quote by Natalie Jeremijenko

I think that politics in most people's lives expresses itself like that: indirectly, in half thought-out opinions and feelings. And sometimes through a connection…

— Mary Gaitskill

“Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in…

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Ordinarily, people are anxious to test their theories in practice, to learn from experience, but those who wield power are so anxious to establish…

— Boris Pasternak

“Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics”

— Michael Rejebian

It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right,…

— Raymond Geuss

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

— Michael Ignatieff

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Truth is a matter for theologians and philosophers. Politics is not concerned with the truth but with perceptions.”

— Mathias Frey

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

I believe that a writer has to tell what they think is the truth in a human experience. The truth of the human experience…

— Walter Mosley

Politics is a joke to the definition of the truth.

— Jeremy Limn

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

— Michael Wolff