Oscar Niemeyer Quotes

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

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.

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

All literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature...

That night image had replaced the written word as the natural language of politics.

If a narrow-minded FBI agent slipped into Aaron McGruder’s Los Angeles penthouse apartment, his eyes would get wide. Just inside the front door is a photograph of Fidel Castro riding into Havana Jan. 1, 1959.

The only books on revolution were published by communists.

Ralph Bunch is a well known communist who has been sent to corrupt the Secretariat of the United Nations.

If you know anything, deny, deny, deny. I want to save Fascism.

You can’t run the railroads without taking in some Nazi party members

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'

Liberals always cry wolf.

The views I have, the books I write, are read as political, or even as manifestos.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

I haven't written too many political lyrics. Nor have I written any pro-Canada lyrics, any kind of jingoistic, nationalistic cant... That stuff doesn't interest me and I don't even know if I could write that if I tried because I don't really feel it.

Hedda's Hopper attitude was 'once a Commie, always a Commie.'