Roland Joffe Quotes

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

There is nothing that is not political.

In politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Are not Religion & Politics the Same Thing?

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Atheism cheapens everything it touches - look at the results of communism, the most powerful form of atheism on earth.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.