Architecture is definitely a political act.
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community.
There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you live with, how you wear your hair, whether you marry, whether you insist that your child take piano lessons, what are the brand names on your shelf; all...
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously a...
Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the hu...
I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
Even the most political poem is an act of faith.
POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.
All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system developm...
