Top 1200 Political Prisoners Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

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

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

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

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

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

In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed.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.

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

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

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

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

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

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

The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with political ethics. Ethics is the one rational discipline that demands the establishment of a rational set of value judgments; political ethics is that subset applying to matters of State.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

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

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've never made a political donation to Hillary Clinton or any other political candidate.

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

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

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

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

I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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