Aman Mojadidi Quotes

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

Art is not something to decorate a wall. Art is a political weapon.

In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes or art that is detached from or independent of politics.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

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

All good art should be political, I think, and inevitably it all becomes political really, in one way or another.

The world would have peace if the men of politics would only follow the Gospel.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Our Ancestors founded their government on morality and religious sentiment. They were brought hither by their high veneration of the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate it with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influences through all their institutions, civil, political, social, and educational.

The Ten Commandments have served as a symbol of law, not only in the United States, but in other countries of the world. On the frieze of the Supreme Court is Moses holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments written in Hebrew, Now I don’t think that is a state endorsement of Judaism.

The Islamic awakening began as a spiritual, an individual event, but it has become increasingly political.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

A headscarf cannot be a political symbol…. If all political parties allowed women to wear a headscarf if they wanted, there would be no political symbol …. A woman who covers her head does so because of her beliefs not because of politics.

The duty of the church is to march to the ballot box, an army of Christ, with the banners of the cross, and deposit, as she can, a million votes for her true representative …

Eventually an effective political ideology cannot be based on any certain religion. Religion can offer some contribution, but an entire political activism cannot be oriented in accordance with religion. Political history of this region has the example of religion-based politics attempted in Pakistan and it failed. Not only in Islam, people in other religions of many regions try to keep on politics based on religion. It's not right.

One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium...opium...opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.

Religion must be disciplined by democracy.

The religious right needs to adapt to the reality of modern pluralism.

Powerful vested interests and the forces of conservatism are particularly strong where the observation of Christmas is concerned.

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

All political art is bad – all good art is political.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics.