Political Statement Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as…
— J. G. Ballard
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent.…
— Anne Hathaway
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I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes…
— Johnny Weir
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If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
— Marjane Satrapi
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Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.
— Paul Tsongas
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My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
— Erykah Badu
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The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even…
— Amiri Baraka
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Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover’s…
— Josh Lanyon
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You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.
— Tariq Ramadan
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We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make…
— Samantha Morton
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I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need…
— Dave Matthews
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to…
— Irvine Welsh
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Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.
— Cliff Stearns
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I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because…
— Stella Young
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And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's…
— Michael Moore
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I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker…
— Arundhati Roy
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Love is a human experience, not a political statement.
— Anne Hathaway
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I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
— M.I.A.
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Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.
— Brent Musburger
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