Political Statement Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

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
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
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
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better. — Marjane Satrapi
Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement. — Paul Tsongas
My hair is an aesthetic choiceâ€¦ At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well. — Erykah Badu
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is â€¦ political, even… — Amiri Baraka
Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your loverâ€™s… — Josh Lanyon
You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement. — Tariq Ramadan
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
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
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
Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001. — Cliff Stearns
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
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
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
Love is a human experience, not a political statement. — Anne Hathaway
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.
Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement. — Brent Musburger

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