Political Stance Quotes

#1. Never was my political stance determined by the men I was with. I had my own ideas.

Gioconda Belli

#2. A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.

John Derbyshire

#3. I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

Elena Poniatowska

#4. Civil war is an exercise in building group loyalties. The trauma of civil war and massacre works not just to desocialize the victims but to socialize the killers into a particular ethical and political stance. Men who had killed together were bound together.

Richard Alston

#5. When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Oscar Niemeyer

#6. I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.

Steven Soderbergh

#7. Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student's lives, but they're not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they're not feminists - even though they are.

Mary Gordon

#8. Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

Bell Hooks

#9. It's exhausting. When everything's a deliberate political stance. Even if it's interesting.

A.S. Byatt

#10. I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

Kara Walker

#11. When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.

Jim Wallis

#12. I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

Francis Joseph Sheed

#13. The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Ovid

#14. My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

Ras Kass

#15. And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

Daryl Hannah

#16. Although as an individual Gao had readily denounced the Chinese authorities for the events of 4 June in the French and Italian media, he refused to compromise his integrity as a writer. His stance angered both political sides.

Gao Xingjian

#17. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Madeleine L'Engle

#18. Everybody counts, or nobody counts.

Michael Connelly

#19. Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

Edward Gibbon