Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.
Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.
Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully — in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.
Our meeting will keep, but my meatloaf and bowl of masturbation in the fridge won’t. Everybody at the political campaign loves when I bring food.
Our sex smelled like love—and monetary transaction. Whatever we had, it was politics at its most honest.
I watch my feet as I walk along. Left, right, left, right, why is everything about politics?
I stayed up all night making love—to myself. That reminds me, I need to buy some more Jell-O and political biographies.
How to grow up slowly and secretly, not all at once like lunch in a condom, that is the essence of politics. But I don’t vote for dicks.
Be the cheeseburger you’ve always dreamed you could be. That’s the advice I’d give to any hamburger running for political office.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
He had made his way up the ranks of the department the hard way, with effort and integrity as opposed to politics.
To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
Donkeys and elephants represent us politically. Why? Because snakes and roaches would be too obvious.
I’m here for the gangbang, and I brought the cream cheese. Has the political convention already started?
Love, it’s overrated in my book. Really, in my book I gave it 11 out of 10 stars. But stars are like political votes. Who’s really counting?
