Quotes on Political

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston, there's a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and hard work as being political in order to avoid accountability and distract from community demands for better leadership.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

Political experience is political inefficacy.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.

I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

As much as some people like to put down 'political correctness,' if it wasn't for political correctness, I wouldn't be free right now.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.