Famous Quotes

"Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible."

Ben Okri on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Ben Okri

• "Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

• "I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people."

• "Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."

• "The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader."

• "I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it."