Top 1200 Political Statement Quotes & Sayings

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know, political doesn't mean that it sends this message or that is has a statement. It's also political in its aesthetic project.

In today's world everything is political. We are a statement - our clothes, haircut, the way we act.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.

It's a big flash of all these things and whatever you take out of that statement's one statement, one mind, one statement, one act, one show, and all the songs are one.

The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

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.

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement

Baby Got Back' was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn't see it as this gigantic political statement.

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it's just pure entertainment.

The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.

My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Every thought, emotion, and action is a statement about who we are, and who we are becoming. Why not make this statement 'On Purpose'?

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.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

The founding of Graeae by disabled actors was a huge political statement that you forgot at your peril.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

I'm very simplistic. I like jewelry that is small, that is a statement piece but with a delicate statement.

I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.

It's not like we were setting out to make a political statement - we're just a band with opinions.

The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course. ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

I'm a walking political statement.

For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.