Quotes of: Political-activity Keyword

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Ethics

There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

Joe Klein

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.

Mark Fuhrman

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

Liz Phair

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

Ellen Willis

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