Soapbox Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
— Mel Brooks
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This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace…
— Frank I. Cobb
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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place.
— Jeremy Renner
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I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no…
— Jude Law
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants…
— L. Neil Smith
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and…
— Carl Hiaasen
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It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever…
— Zach Braff
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
— Carl Hiaasen
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I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
— Dylan Moran
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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part…
— Jeremy Renner
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One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
— John Grisham
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For the most part, I don't like people who soapbox.
— Art Alexakis
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Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective…
— Walter Koenig
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I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead…
— Dylan Moran
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I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to…
— Chino Moreno
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I have to say, without getting up on a soapbox, I find these reality shows absolutely disgusting.
— Terry Wogan
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A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with…
— Andrew O'Hagan
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I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make…
— Nick Offerman
Who Wrote These Soapbox Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Soapbox Quotes as follows: