Politics
- James Gordon (New York) (1739–1810), American Indian trader, U.S. Congressman
- James Gordon (MP) (c. 1758–1822), Member of Parliament for Truro, 1790–1796, and Clitheroe, 1808–1812
- James Gordon (Upper Canada politician) (1786–1865), Upper Canada political figure
- James Gordon (Mississippi) (1833–1912), American planter, U.S. Senator
- Jim Gordon (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician
- James Leonard T. Gordon (1917–1967), American-Filipino politician
- James Thomas Gordon (1859–?), Canadian politician, Manitoba
- James Wright Gordon (J. Wright Gordon, 1809–1853), Whig politician from Michigan
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)