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Politique
Quotes about politique — ideas, advice and perspectives to get inspired.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts, it has its laws.”
“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.”
“I cannot stress enough that I am not a career politician.”
“I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.”
“Political tyranny is nothing compared to social tyranny and a preacher who is not afraid to preach the truth even if it is unpalatable.”
“We have everything we need to solve the climate crisis, except the political will.”
“A child born today will be part of a generation that will see the end of poverty, the end of inequality, and the end of injustice.”
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.”
“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no such thing as innocence.”
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.”
“I am Giorgia Meloni, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian.”
“We are ready to give Italy a government that will defend the interests of the nation.”
“We want to be a people of good neighbors, both at home and abroad.”
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“The most powerful weapon of the oppressors is the mind of the oppressed.”
“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
“But the ultimate test of a people's capacity for freedom is their willingness to die for it.”