Politicised Quotes

#1. Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Alan Blinder

#2. A jury of inquest was impaneled, and after due deliberation and inquiry they returned the inevitable American verdict which has been so familiar to our ears all the days of our lives - "NOBODY TO BLAME.

Mark Twain

#3. We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

Kent Haruf

#4. There is nothing more hateful than a man who deliberately tries to play on the surface and superficial emotions of people. I have no interest in that except to denounce it.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#5. Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

Jeff Rich

#6. If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Sachin Tendulkar

#7. If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Freeman Dyson

#9. All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.

Maria Montessori

#10. I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

Leila Aboulela

#11. You could smell my ass from mars.

Joe Rogan

#12. It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

Robert Smith

#13. The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.

Robyn Davidson

#14. I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

James Nesbitt

#15. The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#16. The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.

Preneet Kaur

#17. The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

Nick Cave

#18. I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

Cate Blanchett

#19. I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Christopher Hitchens

#20. There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Barry McGuire

#21. Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

Tony Blair

#22. Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Damon Galgut

#24. In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

Rufus Wainwright

#25. The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#26. We aren't born for ourselves alone. Wells couldn't abandon the others after the horror of that day. He needed to get back to help bury Priya, to comfort those who wouldn't be able to sleep. To restrain those whose grief and fear might turn into a need for vengeance.

Kass Morgan

#27. I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.

Dan Hill

#28. The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.

Deborah Eisenberg