Milos Forman Quotes

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

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

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.

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.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

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

If somebody asks me where I stand, I tell them. And that's not a way to get elected, generally. Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States. What I'd like to do is to be able to influence the dialogue. I'm a citizen

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

It's horrible when actors say that they are apolitical.

Though I do believe that when you live in political times it is inevitable that your art be political, I also think we need to start making activists celebrities rather than trying to make celebrities to be activists.

I'm very political and I'm not ashamed of it, and I think having the platform I have, I want to take advantage of that.

Those of us who work in politics can only make ourselves useful if our heads are filled with things that we can contribute to the political space.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

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

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.