“Politeness is good only in social relations, because to be polite in literary or academic [matters] would be to be dishonest. Ipinasa mo out of politeness? Our of kwan to the father or...No!”
“Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives, one in which we are compelled to take stock of our interdependence.”
“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics”
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....”
“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. ”
“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”