“But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.” SaidPoliticalCultureHappeningsCampaignsFinanceReformCampaign FinancePolitical CultureCampaign Finance Reform Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.” IfsWorldTryingEyePoliticalResponsibilityMoralWillingHappeningsInjusticePolitical LifeMoral Life Author:Bill Ayers
“People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.” PeopleFacesPoliticalDifferencesReligiousIssuesHappeningsStatementsReligious FreedomFraming Author:Pat Condell
“All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.” PeopleWorldWritingWellsPoliticalLyingPayComfortableHappeningsConcernClaimsQuaker Author:Storm Jameson
“This is the problem with foreign policy - talking about foreign policy in a political context. Politics is binary. People win and lose elections. Legislation passes or doesn't pass. And in foreign policy often what you're doing is nuance and you're trying to prevent something worse from happening. It doesn't translate well into a political environment.” PeopleTryingWellsProblemPoliticalWinningLosesTalkingEnvironmentPolicyHappeningsElectionForeign PolicyTranslateLegislationNuanceWinning And LosingBinaryPolitical Environment Author:David Corn
“I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.” ThinkingProblemPoliticalHappeningsInternational Author:Patti Davis
“It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.” DoeImportantActionPastPoliticalPassionPoliticsEnergyLeftNationsWealthConsciousnessHistoryDoubtHappenedShareIdentityDiversityHappeningsPrejudiceMarkNotesBoundariesLandscapeCollectivesConceptionMulticulturalismTenseSuccessionStanceVisceralCultural DiversityUnleashedDissolvingCollective Consciousness Author:Joyce Appleby
“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.” IfsThinkingLongSeemsPoliticalCultureFightingFashionFieldsBecomingSolutionsHappeningsTradeLinkedDisagreementBecoming MoreFighting Each Other Author:Tom Ford
“That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.” TryingHumansWellsImportantCountryReasonCharacterStoriesSeemsWantedPastPoliticalCitiesSawsHappeningsMirrorsOur CountryReason WhyFlaws Author:Nicolas Cage
“This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksStatesAmericaPoliticalLeftChurchInterestingUnitedUnited StatesOne ThingMiddleHappeningsConstitutionEastSeparationMiddle EastUnited States Of AmericaConstructsVery InterestingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateTheocracy Author:Allen West
“My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.” WorldNeedsYearsHappensPoliticalOrderStudyEconomicAdviceFashionHappeningsDaughterDesignerHistoricGood Design Author:Tim Gunn
“What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.” WorldStatesTodayLawPoliticalSocialProcessRealizingHealingClearHappenedDiseaseHappeningsDecadesMedicalPrimariesWarfareLocksSymptomsParadigmWorld TodayPolitics Today Author:Marianne Williamson
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.” WarPoliticalLevelsPowerfulLeaderMilitaryHappeningsTraditionDecidedContradictionVietnamUnjustDocumentariesIndictmentMilitary Leader Author:James Nachtwey
“We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingFormPoliticalOpinionInfluencePersonalityPoliticianHappeningsEducatePolitical Will Author:Angelina Jolie
“Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.” PoliticalInterestEconomySpecialHappeningsPressureVariousCommitteesSpecial InterestsImmediacy Author:Joel Miller
“There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.” PoliticalHappeningsThings HappenGet Away Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back. Bombastic insults wont take it back. Political rhetoric that promises a lot and delivers little, won't take it back. All of our problems can be solved. All of our wounds can be healed by a tested leader who is willing to fight for the character of our nation.” LittlesCountryCharacterProblemPoliticalFightingNationsLeaderWillingCitizensPromiseHappeningsAngryWoundsOur CountryInsultRhetoricTestedHealedBombasticPolitical Rhetoric Author:Carly Fiorina
“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.” IfsPoliticalMotherArtistLevelsTvsHappeningsProgramWingsDebateMainstreamFrighteningRight WingBiasedPolitical Debates Author:Thom Yorke
“I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.” FirstsPersonsAmericaPoliticalViewsNew YorkHappeningsPoint Of ViewLatinFirst PersonLatin AmericaLatin American Author:Ruben Blades
“There should be a name for this, for the process whereby one knows one is being yanked and concedes it has been done successfully - that one is grateful to have been spun. In the theater, it is called the willing suspension of disbelief. That's what allows the play to make an impact on the audience: they have to be able to make believe that what's happening on the stage is really happening. Maybe to a degree it is a requirement for all political participation, all effective political communication, too.” KnowsShouldBelieveHas BeensDonePlayAblePoliticalNamesProcessAudienceStageWillingCommunicationDegreesHappeningsTheaterGratefulImpactRequirementsParticipationDisbeliefMake BelieveSpunSuspensionSuspension Of DisbeliefPolitical Participation Author:Peggy Noonan
“Because a part of the entire [Donald] Trump experience or whatever this last six months [of 2015] has been sort of feels like we`ve been living in a dream, but this is all actually happening.I mean, it`s great to be a political journalist in this time. It`s about the rhetoric. You hear his supporters on the campaign trail say we`re glad he`s not politically correct.” FeelsMeanHas BeensDreamLastsPoliticalMonthsTrumpSixHappeningsCampaignsGladJournalistRhetoricSupporterSix MonthsTrailsPolitically Correct Author:Greg Gutfeld
“I do get a sense that there's a huge disconnect between the political powers and what's really happening, so right-wing conservatives can talk about contraception all they want, but the women of America are using birth control. It's as simple as that.” WantAmericaPoliticalSimpleHugeBirthHappeningsWingsRight WingPolitical PowerBirth ControlContraception Author:Anna Quindlen
“I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.” PeopleThinkingIdeasJobsPoliticalSituationMiddleEvolutionHappeningsVoteEastOur SocietyIndividualismMiddle EastPolitical SystemsDominatingSociological Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“To me, everything happening inside of us is political.” PoliticalHappenings Author:Marianne Williamson
“Anything having to do with what is happening inside people has political significance to me. That is why I like the term "holistic politics."” PeoplePoliticalTermHappeningsSignificanceHolistic Author:Marianne Williamson
“The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening.” StatesProblemPoliticalSocialConsciousnessEconomicPlanetsGoes OnHappeningsEnvironmentalListsLeapTransitionEnteringStates Of ConsciousnessUpheavalMultiplying Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Fidel Castro is a man with a great sense of self-criticism and respect for his political friends. He is not going to give me instructions, and I am not the type of man who would take them. That's not to say that I don't approve of what is happening in Cuba, but he would never send me a letter telling me what to do or not to do.” MenGivingSelfPoliticalTypeHappeningsCriticismLettersGive MeInstructionCubaSense Of SelfCastroSelf Criticism Author:Salvador Allende
“You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.” KindSeemsPoliticalReligiousGayProtectSpeechHappeningsMinorities Author:Judith Butler
“We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.” NeedsPoliticalHappeningsToolsCornersPortfolios Author:Van Jones
“I really think what's happening to the American political system is that it has been reduced to a system of self-perpetuation for the people in it. And they view security for themselves as always needing things to be done.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSelfDonePoliticalViewsSecurityHappeningsPolitical SystemsAmerican Political System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on.” PoliticalProcessDealsCitiesIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsCivil RightsCivil Rights MovementDetroitDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.” IfsWorldMeanDifferentAgeAmericaPastPoliticalChallengesMajorsHappeningsAwakeningSatisfiedIntenseRelateAspirationRestlessLivelyStirringRecent Past Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Their [BBC] idea of bipartisanship is to try not to offend the Conservative party, try not to offend the Labour party.There is no analysis of anything beyond that, and these two parties are exactly identical, following the same Neoliberal policies for thirty years. And it's no criticism outside of that, it's just that there's basically sectarian pandering to these two individual parties, these two individual organisations. They still make a lot of great programmes and do a lot of great things, but there's not much political analysis happening broader to that.” TryingYearsStillsTwoIdeasPoliticalIndividualPartyPolicyHappeningsCriticismConservativeFollowingGreat ThingsAnalysisThirtyLabourIdenticalOrganisationThirty YearsProgrammesLabour PartyConservative PartyBipartisanship Author:Irvine Welsh
“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in. Sometimes I feel like, well, perhaps it's not right because as a political activist, this is where politics is happening right now. This is where the conversation is going on, but at the same time, I think there is something corrosive about it.” ThinkingMenWantFeelsWellsHas BeensSelfSometimesFeelingsAmericaPoliticalPresidentMastersTrumpRight NowConversationHappeningsClubsCrueltyMediumsActivist Author:Ben H. Winters
“What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is here, and the people have this sentiment and this political power. They feel that they can do it, and it's still there. At the same time, we don't know what is going to happen. So to be very quick by saying, "Oh, revolutions and Arab Spring," and - you know, what I'm advocating is to take a cautious optimism as the starting point of our analysis and to look at what is happening.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsLooksStillsHappensPoliticalCan DoRevolutionIntellectualSpringHappeningsOptimismStartingAwakeningAnalysisSentimentsDictatorCautiousStarting PointPolitical PowerAdvocatingIrreversibleArab WorldArab Spring Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.” WayShouldWellsAmericaPoliticalSpeakSocialVoiceCommunityIssuesPolicyInvolvedRacismHappeningsRaisesInstitutionsIslamInternationalConnectedDiscriminationRelatedTortureIllegalSolitarySpeaks OutAmerican SocietyConfinementMonitoringGuantanamoPolitical IssuesSolitary ConfinementGuantanamo BayAmerican LeadershipDomestic Policy Author:Tariq Ramadan
“Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.” ShouldYearsHeartStatesHappensTodayWantedPoliticalNationsForgetLeaderEconomicReturnHappeningsEuropeWeakFranceGermanyNever Forget Author:Marine Le Pen
“Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.” MenWritingYoungPoliticalSubjectsHappeningsAngryPopsBritishTheatreYoung ManBobDylanControversial Author:Pete Townshend
“The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.” WayWritingKindCountryDoneLightPoliticalClassMiddleStageNeededWeaponsHappeningsExcitingResponsibleShiningActivismIndianMiddle ClassPrizePrincessDarlingEmergingAmmunitionPolitical Activism Author:Arundhati Roy