Political System Quotes

“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is the same thing – the usefully for the stronger” (Plato, The Republic).”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“The dream of all peoples—a world without weapons, a world without wars—despite any initiatives, no matter whether they are strategic or not, is only a utopia within the contemporary content of the State. Nowadays, the State is the biggest, the most powerful criminal organization of continuous robbery of social labor. The State is a mafia today, in which the basic principle is the “law” omertá—“who’s not mum, is dead!” Now the State is the final phase of the organized criminality. It is “a conspiracy of the rich” (Thomas More), where because of the judicial astrology, “in every situation, powerful rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble” (Jean-Jacque Rousseau). Until now, the class society represents a power of one family that divided for itself the state as private property!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.”
― George Washington, George Washington's Farewell Address

“I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“In 1959, Vice-President Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth Club, was asked if he’d like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment—the sort that has since taken place—and he replied, “I think it would be a great tragedy . . . if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative-liberal line.” He continued, “I think one of the attributes of our political system has been that we have avoided generally violent swings in Administrations from one extreme to the other. And the reason we have avoided that is that in both parties there has been room for a broad spectrum of opinion.” Therefore, “when your Administrations come to power, they will represent the whole people rather than just one segment of the people.”
― Jeffrey Frank

“Don't be obsessed with yet another revolution to overthrow the opposition, if you think that a violently excruciating revolution will make everything right. Let me ask a question about this brave new revolution of yours, when you have finally defeated all the bad guys and it's all perfect and just and fair - when you've finally got it exactly the way you want it, what are you going to do with the people like you - the trouble-makers? How are you going to protect your glorious revolution from the next one? You may most blindly and boastfully proclaim that you will win. But remember, no one wins for long. The wheel just keeps turning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Hear no evil. Speak no evil. See no evil. Read the newspapers.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“What you call law is essentially the need of an uncivilized and unfree society. A truly civilized and free society needs no law.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Fabric of Humanity

“Nepal's political system is forever shifting from one set of coalition politics to the next without creating a safe and secure political space for governance.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“[... Totalitarianism] was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Each national group deserves its political system. The characteristics of the political system are automatically determined by the political and social psychology of the ethnic group, even if in this group this system may seem unpopular at first sight.”
― Elmar Hussein

“In the world's political system, the biggest religion is only the bread, clothes and the house that stimulates the justice, law, and order, love and prayer since that lead towards the welfare of society.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“A moral economy is either a moral enterprise that is guided by a genuine spiritual desire to create one, even at the expense of strictly economic considerations, or it will degenerate into another profit-oriented and exploitative use of resources. Citizens who are not prepared to pay higher prices to support such an economy and volunteer their own efforts on its behalf are not likely to be prepared for self-governance in any form. Hence the need for a new municipal politics to become an intensely educational and participatory experience at every level of civic life.”
― Murray Bookchin, Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

“The word "moral" must be repeated—not as rhetoric to match the claims of reaction but as the felt spiritual underpinnings of a new social vision. It must be repeated not as part of a patronizing sermon but as a living practice that people incorporate into their personal lives and their communities. The vacuity and triviality of life today must be filled precisely by those visionary ideals that sustain the human side of life as well as its material side, or else the coordinates by which the future should be guided will totally disappear in that commodity-oriented world we call the "marketplace of ideas." The more serious indecency of this "marketplace" is that these ideals will be turned into objects—mere commodities—that will lack even the value of things we need to sustain us. They will become the mere ornaments needed to garnish an inherently anti-human and anti-ecological society that threatens to undermine moral integrity as such and the simple social amenities that foster human intercourse.”
― Murray Bookchin, Urbanization Without Cities: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship

“In the world's political system, the biggest religion is only the bread, clothes, and the house that stimulates the justice, law, and order, love, and prayer since that lead towards the welfare of society.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“For more Americans, the political system surrounds us in much the same way water surrounds fish. It's just what we know. It's normal. And while we complain about its performance, we don't question its nature because we don't believe it can change. We accept dysfunction, gridlock, and government in action - even in the face of national adversity - as normal. And when we return to our polling places on election day and yet again see only two choices on our balance - neither of which we really like - we accept that as normal, too. Here's what else has become normal for far too many Americans over the last 50 years: A quality-of-life downturn so significant that, when compared with the thirty-six other peer democratic countries with advanced economies, we Americans are near the bottom across numerous dimensions we once pioneered. We are thirty-third and access to quality education, thirty-third and child mortality, twenty-sixth and discrimination and the violence against minorities, and thirty-first and the clean drinking water - just to name a few.
The actual water in America is getting bad now.”
― Katherine Gehl

“Knowing what I know about the political system, it does appear President Trump upset a lot of people in politics.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you have faith in the political system to regulate itself? I do not.”
― Steven Magee