Political Quotes

My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities.

The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political order.

True medicine is to defend human life in any circumstances and not for political reasons or for reasons of any other kind, it is really to help, that is true solidarity.

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

When the economic orthodoxy can no longer deliver, political turbulence follows. That doesn't mean the left will win, but it means there is an opportunity to be seized.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.

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.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

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

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

When President Nixon said that the American people don't want their foreign policy dictated from the street, unfortunately, he said the most clever political statement I think he's ever said.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.