Colin Greenwood Quotes

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

We must not become perpetually distracted from the great challenges facing our country and the world.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

I'm a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it's very difficult to voice it in an intelligent manner without it sounding contrived. Because people think you're saying or doing all this as a PR exercise, not from your heart.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is.

He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

Senator Rand Paul is a Whacko Bird

I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

I'm politically incorrect. I don't get into politics like that. I speak about what I know and what effects me personally, and effects my folks.

I don't read newspapers too much , just because they tend to make me feel I have a political obligation that I think is a distraction from what my political offerings are going to be if I just make my movies.

I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch.

You can't be twenty-four hours of just Bush-bashing.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.