Home / Quotes / Quote by James M. Buchanan

Quote by James M. Buchanan

“Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.”

Quote by James M. Buchanan

Author

James M. Buchanan

James M. Buchanan was a distinguished economist known for his contributions to the theory of public choice. He was born on October 3, 1919, and passed away on January 9, 2013. Buchanan's theories had a profound impact on understanding government behavior and market mechanisms. more

You May Also Like

“Politicians and bureaucrats are no different from the rest of us. They will maximize their incentives just like everybody else.”

Different Politician Incentives Bureaucrats

Author:James M. Buchanan

“First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.”

Writing Firsts Self Novel

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.”

Doctors Inspired Memoir Mixtures

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.”

People Young Courses Cutting Doctors Critics Males Memoir Young Women Shocked

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.”

Men Way Mind Important Political Left Pieces Cutting Minutes Elements Doctors Relation Memoir Personal Life

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

“Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.”

Years Differences Ten Zero

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“During the '80s I wrote Memoirs from the Women's Prison. This is one of my most important books. It came out in Arabic in '83. About my experience in prison.”

Important Book Prison Memoir 80s

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“I never stopped writing. I started writing when I was twelve years of age. And I was writing all the time. But nothing was translated until thirty years after I started writing, when The Hidden Face of Eve was translated in 1980.”

Writing Years Age Faces Thirty Twelve Thirty Years

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.”

Different Community Practice Doctors Medicine Village Psychiatry Public Health Specialty Preventive Medicine

Author:Nawal El Saadawi