Steve Erickson Quotes

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

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

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The first duty of an American citizen, then is that he shall work in politics.

As Americans, it is up to all of us to be well informed and thoughtful, to help our country make the right decisions in this time or testing.

Citizens are refined, cultivated, and very political. I believe in the legitimacy of their participation.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization;

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

I think it's very important of course that you're politically aware of what you do.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

I'm moved to think about the political state of our country right now. Most people who go out and vote have a very clear sense of what's right and wrong. And a lot of those people who don't aren't sure, so they don't go out and vote.