488 Quotes About Political-philosophy

Je déverse mon évangile et mes contradictions, non pour plaire mais pour susciter la probité de mes contemporains et augmenter la sollicitude contre l’injustice et les constructions sociales et économiques passées de date.

Une œuvre d'art peut être remplie de détails qui suscitent des émotions différentes selon la distance depuis laquelle on les observe. A contrario, les théories économiques boursouflées de préjugés qui vont à l'encontre du bon sens ne devraient appeler qu'une réponse : le rejet.

In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

Alternative facts and fake news are just other names for propaganda

​On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.

Those butterflies are my Valentine, because they're victims of the political errors.

One should not study what is best, but also what is possible, and similarly what is easier and more attainable by all.

In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means.

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for earth. -Notes Toward a Politics of Location