Eric Nelson Quotes

History is past politics, and politics present history.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

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?

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Ideas shape the course of history.

What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

He who wants to make history bear on politics must be sure that his history is objective; otherwise, history will not influence politics, but rather politics history.

Politics can bring a lot of happiness, but you can also experience a lot of unhappiness.

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

All politics is reactive.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

I never had a political thought in my life until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign.

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

With his gigantic personality, my grandfather burst onto the great political panorama of that era made up only of little men with little ideas.