Mark Fisher Quotes

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldn't have happened without the social changes.

Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx.

The best art is either political or revolutionary....Those things that are powerfully revolutionary are not always successful in the market place.

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries.

I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

With Thobbing Gristle, that era from '75 to '81 was a period when the politics of the time demanded anger and rage.

There's this zeitgeist happening, and people are more open to 'Sorry to Bother You' being a hit with 'Get Out' being out there. But that zeitgeist is also happening because of the movements going back to Occupy and Black Lives Matter. Usually, film is years behind. It just so happens that, this time, everything is lining up.

A lot of songs we've written have been political, but they're also personally political.

I'm a hippie child of the '60s. What drives me crazy about mass media entertainment is that it's so often devoid of any ideas.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.

We have quite a few political songs: 'Channel Z,' let's 'Keep This Party Going' on. Our lyrics aren't too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We're active politically.

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

It's hard not to be political.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that's something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there.