Chris Claremont Quotes

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

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

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

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.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

I don’t believe in democracy because I don’t believe that any group at any time can change the course and goals of their ancestors…

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

Liberal idiocy surrounds us all. It threatens to destroy the values and lifestyles that millions of us cherish.

I think 'The East' is political.

An economic failure becomes a radicalizing force only when an alternative exists

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

The deeper we trace the political influences in history, the more are we convinced that the "will to power" has up to now been one of the strongest motives in the development of human social forms.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

The agents that move politicks are the popular passions, and those are ever ... under the command of the disturbers of society.

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

Everything changes.... Social life changes, and with it the "national question" changes, too. At different periods different classes enter the arena, and each class has its own view of the "national question." Consequently, in different periods the "national question" serves different interests and assumes different shades, according to which class raises it, and when.

In politics, which of two explanations is the “true” one is not quite as important as their respective political implications.

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power

It is important not to confuse the national spirit with that of the faction which presently dominates…

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades.