Top 1200 Political Involvement Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

The decisions related to recruitment are all taken by football experts. My involvement is signing off the money.

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games.

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

United States military involvement in Syria has deepened since President Trump took office.

I had felt for some time that audience involvement with a film should begin with its first frame.

I am not someone who tends to advocate for increased government involvement in the private sector.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

I am an actor first and foremost. Even without my involvement in politics, I was staying away from sub-standard work.

In most riots in India, Congress has had a direct or indirect involvement. History bears this out.

FDR, as best as I can tell, had no kind of involvement at all in our conversion to the paper currency.

The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

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.

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.

Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.

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'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess.

My involvement with the USFL began in the broadcast booth before I ever coached a game in the league.

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own family's involvement with the armed forces.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

My involvement in the Simpson criminal trial was a personal matter and did not involve Movie Tunes, its distributors or exhibitors.

Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

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.

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.

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.

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

The rise of a new kind of political science in the 1960s has been driving a wedge between political insiders and voters ever since. By turning voters into interest groups, it stopped establishment leaders from articulating a national narrative. It opened the way for Movement Conservatives to create today's political crisis.

Community involvement is second nature to me. I've been doing it since high school.

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.

Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't really believe that he was a political artist. I think some of his songs were political, and I think they were incredible because he was able to make art that was political and that wasn't pedantic. But I think he was unique in being able to do that.

I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.

I can't discuss the possibility of the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war without also talking about Benghazi.