Top 1200 Political Prisoners Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

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

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

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

We need less political correctness and more political courage.

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.

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

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.

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.

Writing about relationships is political. The personal is political.

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?

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

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.

Prisoners have benefited disproportionately from 'rights inflation' - the expansion of human rights into unforeseen nooks and crannies.

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

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

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.

Certain people in politics and the press felt there was a political spin to 'Cardiac Arrest,' but there was no political agenda to what I was doing.

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

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

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.

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

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.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

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.

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

While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes' commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party.

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.

I would like to see the Iraqi government guarantee social insurance for the Yazidi women who were enslaved and to recognise their status as prisoners of war.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

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.

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.

We've got communism. We have Bushism. We have Clintonism. But there isn't a Trumpism. Bullet-point for me what the Trump political philosophy is and you can't do it, because he's not a political guy.

Every country has its political face and political traditions.

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

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

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

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

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

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.

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

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

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.

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

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

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

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

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

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.

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

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

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.