Robert Greenwald Quotes

People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those.

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

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

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

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.

We are not apathetic in this country.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I want people to know my political point of view. There's an appetite for that, almost an expectation. I also want to make people laugh, but I wouldn't want to do it at the expense of my point of view.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

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

Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.

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.

Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.

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.

We've never been a political band.

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

I don't play politics; I don't do that. I think there's too many celebrities out there claiming what they believe. I think it's our job to get people out to study the issues and to know what they believe and what they want to vote for.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

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.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.