Top 1200 Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

There's no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matters, and not see that it's a Marxist political organization. It's not about Black Death. It's not about black men. It is a political move. It's a communist political move.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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