Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women.
terrorism n. Violence for political purposes or the politically motivated threat of violence which, either intentionally or unintentionally, challenges the state's monopoly on political violence.
The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.
Everyone believes in sin, the people who charge their peers with political incorrectness and the people who regard political correctness as the bogey of a little mind. What everyone does not believe in, as nearly as I can tell, is forgiveness.
True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two...
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal ...
My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Mo...
Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center more than 10 years ago. It was my hope at the time that it would become a com...
A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical and transcende...
I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea th...
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Politicians really worry about being politically correct.
Hamas is a Palestinian political party with an aggressive militant wing.
