Political View Quotes - Page 3

• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hippie, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Political, Apes

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• Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Father, Blessed

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• It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its avatar, its prime issue, has been abortion. For, whether or not it is regarded as a woman's right, an unfortunate necessity, or murder, which is to say, irrespective of differing and legitimate political views, to enshrine it as the most important test of the Liberal, is, mythologically, an assertion to the ultimate right of a postreligious Paganism.

  David Mamet

  Views, Issues, Abortion

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.163, Penguin

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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• We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

  Wei Jingsheng

  Rights, Views, Political

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• Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

  William Penn

  Men, Rights, Views

  First version of "Frame of Government", April 25, 1682.

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• Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

  David Gemmell

  Simple, Views, Evil

  "No shades of grey" by David Gemmell, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Past, Men

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.422, Best Books on

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• There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.

  Christopher A. Sims

  Writing, Views, People

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• Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

  David Cross

  Views, People, Political

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!

  Sam Donaldson

  Believe, Views, Political

  "Sam Donaldson Rejects Comparison To Reporter Who Interrupted Obama". Donaldson's email to The Huffington Post, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed both in these superb and long-neglected translations for Negro and elsewhere in his work.

  Barney Rosset

  Strong, Views, Mutual Attraction

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• I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out. If something's bugging my ass on any particular day, I'm probably going to say something about it, but I'm not going to go on a tirade. I dislike George Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that...I've said it, you know? It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

  Patterson Hood

  Mean, Guy, Political

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• Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point when it comes to understanding what there is at stake from a political viewpoint. How come so many of them are going to Syria and so few to Palestine, even though, when it comes to symbolism, Palestine definitively wins.Then, it is essential to understand that it is not a religious matter. Finally, let's not forget about the recruiters behind their screens. Those ones are quite skillful and well-supported financially.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Religious, Military, Winning

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Views, Political

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

  Patterson Hood

  Mean, Views, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.

  Davey Havok

  Emotional, Views, Political

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• I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Thinking, Psychosis

  "Sean Lennon speaks". Interview with Joel Amos, www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2010.

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• My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, Political, Trying

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• As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions.

  Dean Koontz

  Gratitude, Race, Government

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• My mother raised me and there was some painful and difficult times, because she was pursuing a career and also very actively involved in expressing her political views. But, looking back, I wouldnt switch her for a normal mom, even though there were moments when Id come back from school and wish shed just be there in a gingham dress putting dinner on the table. I never had that. But now Im really glad I have her.

  Natasha Richardson

  Mom, Mother, School

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• The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.

  Ron Paul

  Religious, Father, Writing

  "The War on Religion" by Ron Paul, www.lewrockwell.com. December 30, 2003.

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• People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people attack people's basic rights and livelihoods, I'm concerned about it. And as a citizen of Queensland and nothing else, I've got the right to express my view.

  Clive Palmer

  Country, Australia, Rights

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