The politics of reality, Shevek repeated. He looked at Oiie and said, That is a curious phrase for a physicist to use.
Not at all. The politician and the physicist both deal with things as they are, with real forces, the basic laws of the world.
You put your petty miserable 'laws' to protect wealth, your 'forces' of guns and bombs, in the same sentence with the law of entropy and the force of gravity? I had thought better of your mind, Demaere!

Chapter 7 (p. 203) - Hainish Cycle - The Dispossessed (1974)