Jonas Akerlund Quotes

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

Rappers are definitely role models and definitely should get involved. They're involved in politics whether they like it or not.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

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.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

But I guess as long as I'm here, we might as well talk a little politics.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.

My family is really into politics.

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.

The Guns N' Roses reunion didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.

I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.

I have decided to create a new political movement.

I am pretty heavy into causes. I'm an active Democrat, I boycott grapes, and I work for prison reform.