Political Being Quotes

Speech is what makes man a political being.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

A human being is a naturally political [animal].

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.