“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir - “To abstain from politics is in...” 1

Similar quotes

“The very fact that 'the mystical' is seen as irrelevant to issues of social and political authority itself reflects contemporary, secularized notions of and attitudes toward power. The separation of the mystical from the political is itself a political decision!”

Richard King
Read more

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

George Orwell
Read more

“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”

Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Read more

“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”

Soren Kieregaaard
Read more

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Read more