Activism Quote by Anonymous

All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics…

— Ernest Hemingway

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

— John Derbyshire

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't…

— David Hare

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz

“People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.”

— Paul Graham

As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.

— Stacey Abrams

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and…

— David Hare

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the…

— George Orwell

“Political language . . . is designed to make its lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

— George Orwell

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a…

— Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert

“For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It is also clear, unfortunately,that ideology runs deeper than the hopeful might have previously imagined. It is not merely a question of turning the…

— Nina Power