Quotes with political-minded

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  • Leonard Cohen Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • William S. Burroughs Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • W. H. Auden As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Hoff As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Angela Davis As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Oscar Wilde Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • A. J. McLean Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Toni Morrison Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Bill Dedman Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Will Rogers Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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