Quotes of: Political-animal Keyword

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

The Fracking King: A Novel

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence on the enemy,while confusing the true class contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.

Message To The Black Movement: A Political Statement From The Black Underground

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

As a leader, it’s critical to take the time to reflect in order to create a powerful vision for the company.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

I could rant about political corruption until I’m blue in the face, but most people would just call me a Smurf and move on. My balls are also blue, but that is another subject, and not entirely related to politics.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legen...

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Larry broke my morose train of thought with his laughter. "Welcome to America," he said, "where even our zombie epidemic has an obesity epidemic.

Zombie Apocalypse 2012: A Political Horror Story

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know th...

Miguel Syjuco