Quotes of: Politeness Keyword

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Jay Chiat

There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Michael Franti

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Mao Zedong

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Tony Kushner

Walking is so monotonous. Left, right, left, right, it’s also all so political.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators must thereby be somewhere.

Artificial Gods

It is better to recognise that we are in darkness than to pretend that we can see the light.

The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics

On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.

Yang Lan

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

The Indigo Spell

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

Studies in Proverbs: Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

A Memory of Light

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

March

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art.

Nothing So Glorious

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

The Last and the Lost