“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side. And right now we’ve got work to do.”— Steve Bannon, wsj.com
“We need to be realistic about the ways in which media carries narrative and shapes our culture. About the impact that the works we consume and create have on marginalized people, that we listen to marginalized people when they talk about this rather than get defensive and argue, that we commit to ge…”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“There is no “apolitical” work; there is only work that reflects the world view of cultural privilege back to those with cultural privilege, who see that as “normal” and unmarked by any particular political point of view. Those without that privilege hear the political messaging loud and clear.”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“Social messaging is inescapable in the narrative-based work of theatre, film, video games, and television, whether you choose to examine it or ignore it. In order to ignore the social messaging in a work, you have to be able to ignore it and willing to ignore it.”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“When people say “Why do you have to make everything political?’ they’re using “political” to refer to the social messaging that’s inherent in any work about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, size, class, religious minorities, etc. Let’s cut to the chase: They mean, “I do not wish to ex…”— @bittergertrude, t.co
“I never say I do political art. Nor do I do feminist art. I’m a woman who’s a feminist, who makes art.”— Barbara Kruger, interviewmagazine.com
“Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”— Theodore Roosevelt, en.wikiquote.org
“Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.”— William Gibson, twitter.com
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”— Audre Lorde, newyorker.com
“In the case of Democrats there needn't be an investigation, for they are guilty by definition. In the case of Republicans there shouldn't be an investigation, for those investigations can only be politically motivated witch-hunts.”— Rutger Colin Kips, politico.com
“Every Libertarian was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”— Etan Frankel, Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com
“Steve Bannon does not belong on the national stage. He looks like some disheveled drunk that wandered on to the national stage.”— Peter King, cnn.com
“If I went for the dollar, I would really be a super-rich person who played it safe. The way to make the most money in this country is to deal with sex without touching on politics. Mafia people I knew in the early years of SCREW's existence said, ‘Quit attacking the Pope. Quit attacking the politici…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“Gaining weight and pulling my head out of the toilet was the most political act I ever committed.”— Barbara Findlen, amazon.com
“It's not money, it's not politics—it's who controls the pussy that controls the world.”— Larry Flynt, esquire.com
“Without knowing the truth of what we are doing politically, we can never create a peaceful world.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com