Politik Quotes & Sayings

What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the control of their bodies and appetites. A woman who walks through the doors of a weight watching organization and enters the women's reduction movement has allowed her culture to persuade her that significant relief from personal and cultural dilemma is to be found in the reduction of her body, thus, her decision, although she may not be aware of it, enters the domain of the body politik and becomes symbolically a political act." p.101 — Kim Chernin

And (HAMAS) instead offered alternative ideas on how to both confront Israel without surrendering and govern the Palestinians without corruption. — Khaled Hroub

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter. — Yiyun Li

The United States allegedly presses for democratic change in the region, and when it happens, democracy brings to power anti-US parties. — Khaled Hroub