“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.” WritingStoriesPoliticalOriginalsUnexpectedRealisingUnexpected PlacesPolitical Writing Author:Denise Mina
“The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.” WorldLooksSelfFactsPoliticalProcessReligiousBehindsFoundationDisasterSatisfiedRealisingArrogantCreedsUneasyDissolution Author:John Buchan
“Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.” WellsStillsRealFactsMightPoliticalInterestEuropeLaysFranceDivisionRealisingCampsColleaguesStrategicFascistsReluctantAffinity Book:Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs Source: Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs
“What I didn't understand was that the personal and the political go together. I felt at the time I had to sacrifice my children's present for their future. It seemed an either/or. I didn't realise that by being with one's own children I would have had a better understanding of the ones who are not my own. I was thinking of them but I didn't spend the time that they needed from me. It's a tribute to them that they came out so well.” ThinkingWellsChildrenTogetherPoliticalFeltUnderstandingMy OwnSacrificeNeededMy ChildrenRealisingTributeEither Or Author:Vanessa Redgrave