Always believe Quote by Whitfield Diffie

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

— Francis Parker Yockey

If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

— Olga Tokarczuk

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

“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”

— Robert Musil

If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.

— Peter Medawar

“So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead of an…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“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

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

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

— Dalton Camp