World Politics Quotes

“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski

“In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

“We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and trust to sort out contradictory claims. Instead, the media is splintered into a thousand fragments, each with its own version of reality, each claiming the loyalty of a splintered nation.”
― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“An act of terrorism
is not an ideology,
nor religion.
It is the lack of hope,
of opportunity
and of love.
When there is no recourse,
no other way
there is only insurrection.
Understanding, compassion
and respect for all life
is what will save us all.”
― Mahima Martel, The Insurrectionist

“There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Memo to The States of Earth

All through time, the conquerors have been writing history. But no more! The conquerors are no longer the supreme emperor of the narrative, even if all the spineless governments take their side. Because guess what - society is no longer a property of the state. You ask us to vaccinate, we shall vaccinate - you ask us to follow traffic rules, we shall follow traffic rules - you ask us to file our taxes, we shall file our taxes - because that's the civilized thing to do. But if you ask us to support your rich moron of a friend in his exploits of conquest and domination, you shall not have a government to begin with. Remember that.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.”
― Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger

“Spiritual leaders are the last refuge of failure political scoundrels
And Politics is the last refuge of successful Spiritual scoundrels”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“Multi-stream knowledge will be a key initiator for innovative solutions. Typically, innovation brings together two seemingly disparate aspects to create a new concept, method, system or process that benefits humans.”
― Ganesh Natarajan, Free Ice Cream

“Uncomfortable Illumination (The Sonnet)

Barbarism, thy name is Britain.
Racism, thy name is America.
Regress, thy name is Turkey.
Intolerance, thy name is India.
Superstition, thy name is East Europe.
Megalomania, thy name is Russia.
Snobbery, thy name is West Europe.
Shallowness, thy name is South Korea.
Only "humans" living in these lands,
Will realize the truth in these words.
Whereas the practitioners of prejudice,
Will blow steam out of their ears.
Ignorance, thy name is Sapiens.
Illumination begins with illness acknowledgment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The defining feature of world politics post the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has been the rise of right-wing populists, who have disrupted politics. It wasn't meant to be this way. Conventional wisdom at the time was that the GFC would lead to the 'social democratic moment'. The theory went that in the aftermath of the GFC - an event which exposed the dangers of relentless deregulation and fuelled an already existing rise of inequality - progressive parties, with a preference for appropriately calibrated regulation and redistribution, would benefit. Like much conventional wisdom, reality proved otherwise.
Instead, it's been the right-wing populists' moment. The charlatans' moment. First, they disrupted their own parties, then they disrupted politics more broadly. (p.14-15)”
― Chris Bowen, On Charlatans

“The European Union is the biggest fraud in world history; it was created to capture all European land and resources by four power-hungry countries: the UK, Germany, France, and Italy.
Small European Countries People are just happy that they can roam freely in Paris, Venice, and Berlin, but they have no idea how their governments are paying for this by mortgaging their sovereignty. They are not free nations but a modern-era colony of four power-hungry nations.”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“In world politics, every 100 big seats are occupied by 99 people who are inferior in talent or morality! The reason the world is in such a bad situation is not actually those 99 incompetent or rustic cunning people, but the idiots who brought them there or continue to keep them in those positions!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan