Top 1200 Political Agenda Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.

Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

Satan has an agenda.

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all. Men cannot exercise freedom in the political sphere when they are deprived of it in the economic sphere.

Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.

'Essence' is political. I grew up on the magazine, looking at the covers. Seeing ourselves on the cover is political.

Well, I don't have an agenda.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

I follow politics avidly. I like sensible people of all political persuasions. My ideal political party would be a pick and mix.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

My love is political. My body is political. I talk even when I don't speak.

There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting.

The power of Political Correctness is demonstrated by the entire political establishment coming to the defense of open immigration from Muslim-majority nations.

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments are made to secure the political base and frighten the opposition rather than to illuminate issues. In political discourse, information is to be 'spun' to reinforce pre-existing beliefs, and to discourage opposition.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

From 1962 to 1965 the US was dedicated to try to prevent the independence of South Vietnam, the reason was of course that Kennedy and Johnson knew that if any political solution was permitted in the south, the National Liberation Front would effectively come to power, so strong was its political support in comparison with the political support of the so-called South Vietnamese government.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.

There can be no political reform and democracy in any Arab country without accepting that political Islam is a part of it.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.