Nina Bawden Quotes

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

My interest is in power. How power works.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

I don’t believe in democracy because I don’t believe that any group at any time can change the course and goals of their ancestors…

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

Democracy is the least static form of society. Its basis is reason not authority.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The people are difficult to govern: It is because those in authority are too fond of action [change].

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.