Politics Quotes

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

We want Congress to join the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) alliance.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela’s side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa’s first free elections.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.