Creative Quote by William S. Burroughs

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here,"…

— William S. Burroughs

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

— Dario Fo

The conflict is not between the people and the antiwar movement, but between the people and the government.

— David Dellinger

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends…

— John Lydon

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you…

— Eve Ensler

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle -…

— Marisa Tomei

An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack.…

— Ludwig von Mises

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I don't see…

— Toni Morrison

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself…

— Joseph Brodsky

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

— Bill Ayers

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

— Naomi Klein

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

— Vijay Prashad