Top 1200 Good Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action.

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!

I'm not a professional political analyst, so my political analysis is worth about what you pay for it.

Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform.

I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

We are not here for political reasons, we are here for sport, to fight for positions. That's the good thing about Formula One.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

I think my films are always political, even if I don't put explicitly political things in them.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

We in America were worried about many problems dealing with economic inequality and political inequality. The Communist Party seemed to be the only political force, both concerned and willing, to take action to stop the threat of fascism abroad and to work for economic and political reform in this country.

The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.

I think I've yet to do the big heave is because New York editors tend to think D.C. guys like me want to do political stories. And I hate politics for its own sake. Politics are so... I don't know, political. Which is an odd thing for a guy to say, I suppose, who has worked at a political magazine for fourteen years.

Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.

Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.

There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's not about Black Death. It's not about black men. It is a political move. It's a communist political move.

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.

If tolerance and kindness and acceptance and love are political, then I guess I am political.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

I'm very committed to anti-racism and gender equality - political issues, but not party political.

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

'Go vote' is a not a political strategy. It's hardly a slogan. Hell, it's not even a good tweet.

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

You don't want political acts to become something you just have to do in order to look good.

Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.

There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.