Michel De Certeau Quotes

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

If a narrow-minded FBI agent slipped into Aaron McGruder’s Los Angeles penthouse apartment, his eyes would get wide. Just inside the front door is a photograph of Fidel Castro riding into Havana Jan. 1, 1959.

I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

I don't see myself in the political realm.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

My dad was a Communist Party member who fought for his country.