Latest Viggo Mortensen Quotes from Interviews

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• It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Important, Arena, Said

  Source: www.progressive.org

• As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kings, Evil, Unjust

  Source: www.progressive.org

• The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Effort, Black, May

  Source: www.progressive.org

• The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Source: www.progressive.org

• As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Said, Helm

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Bernie Sanders has inspired millions of people in this country.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, People, Inspired

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Here's where we are, this is what's happening. So do something, or get out of the kitchen.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kitchen, Happenings

  Source: www.progressive.org

• It's easy to get depressed and think, "Well, what's the point?" But it's the same as, "Well, we're all going to die, so what's the point in brushing my teeth or even saying hello to anyone or obeying traffic lights." You can do that, but that's certainly not going to take you anywhere.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Light, Saying Hello

  Source: www.progressive.org

• To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Chance, Strive, Something Better

  Source: www.progressive.org

• If you're not optimistic on some level, then you've given up.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Optimistic, Levels, Given

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I trust Hillary Clinton about as far as I could throw Donald Trump.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Clinton, Trump

• As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Powerful, Military, Player

  Source: www.progressive.org

• That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mind, Alternatives, Calming

  Source: www.progressive.org

• In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

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  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Brave, Honest

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I have to say that I think Bernie Sanders is the first politician since Dennis Kucinich that I've been truly inspired by. Where you actually are truly speaking truth to power, in a legitimate way and in an unpretentious and very straightforward way.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.progressive.org

• One of the most recent things we did [in Perceval Press] is a reissue of a fantastic documentary about Russian prison tattoo culture by Alix Lambert called The Mark of Cain. We've done books from Twilight of Empire, that actually has forewords by Howard Zinn and Dennis Kucinich and others, to books of poetry, photography, painting - all kinds of books.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Tattoo, Photography, Book

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Perceval Press a publishing house I founded in 2002 and it's still going strong. Strong for us means not so many books per year, but each one we very carefully design and print.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Strong, Book, Mean

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."

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  Running, Enemy, Woods

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I think we're on the wrong path in this country and have been for a while. People are in their camps divided by region, economic situation, race, religion, ideology. And there's a lot of just staying in your camp using technology to bolster your case without actually debating with other people, without discussing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.progressive.org

• I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fighting, Editors, Space

  Source: www.progressive.org

• [Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack of cohesion and communication in America right now.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Children, Real, Communication

  Source: www.progressive.org

• In December of 2002, the late Richard Corliss, a respected movie critic with a long and illustrious career, wrote an embarrassing letter of support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan in the guise of a Time magazine review of Peter Jackson's The Two Towers.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Careers, Two, Iraq

  Source: www.progressive.org

• As [John] Tolkien himself said, the story [Lord of the Ring ] is not allegorical. He said so when people tried to make analogies to World War II and the fight against Hitler and his fascist coalition.

  Viggo Mortensen

  War, Fighting, People

  Source: www.progressive.org