Politics
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Politics have no relation to morals.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
I am not joining politics. I don't intend to contest election. I am happy to be back to doing normal things, be it films or other work.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Architecture is politics.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
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