Contemporary Quote by Revilo P. Oliver

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us…

— Anonymous

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,…

— John Rawls

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.

— Roger Scruton

“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In order to…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no…

— George Saunders

I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around.…

— Walter Kirn

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

— Theodore Roosevelt