“Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.” ArtMatterTodayPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeEthicsArt Is Author:Ingmar Bergman
“[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeurat another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.” MenMindHas BeensPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeStrangeProductsAbusePraiseVanityDelusionOne TimeMixturesPublic LifeSpoiledTimidityAnother Time Author:Calvin Coolidge
“It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.” BelieveDoeMadeFactsSeemsPoliticalPoliticsGivenPartyActingAttitudeWorryFailingInfluencePossibilityWeaknessHumanitarianTendenciesCommunismMentalityDoomedPolitical PartiesFascistsMassacresMouldStalinism Author:John Dos Passos
“... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.” MenStillsPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeLibertyGreaterDangerOvercomingSuperstitionsPolitical PowerSuffrageWoman SuffragePower Man Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926 Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926
“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.” LoveLifeHappinessSuccessPoliticalPoliticsAttitudeMoralFamilyEffectsHeroGainsVisibleProtestSignificanceHeroicDisobedienceNo Hope Author:Vaclav Havel