Political Act Quotes

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

Every film is a political act; it's how you see the world.

In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist has become a political act.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

I often say that buying 'Heavy Rain' is a political act.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

The very act of voting is a political act.

The quieting of our mind is a political act.

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

The fence is solely a defensive measure, intended to protect Israelis from suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks. It is not a political act. It is not intended to be a border or to prejudge any future negotiations with the Palestinians … the fence is temporary. Its sole purpose is security, and it can be moved or removed in accordance with any agreement we may reach

I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

To be clear, impeachment is above all else a political act.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.