Top 33 Political Statement Quotes

I haven’t made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

There was a time when people liked to take Shakespeare and twist him around to make whatever social or political statement they wanted to make.

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn’t mix, don’t mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don’t talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that’s what it is for the athletes, too.

It’s not what my job is about. I’m not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it’s just pure entertainment.

It’s not like we were setting out to make a political statement – we’re just a band with opinions.

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That’s how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn’t making any kind of political statement.

With Storytelling, at least, it’s explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

I don’t look to save the world with any of the movies that I make. I’m not trying to make any political statement with the movies I make. I’m trying to have a good time. I’m trying to entertain people.

Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.

Every time we get in drag and bat an eyelash, it is a political statement.

My work isn’t overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don’t have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

It’s not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives – they may not be being overtly political, but I’d say by channelling their energy into community projects, that’s a valid political statement.

I have no interest in making a ‘Vietnam’ film, no interest in making a direct political statement.

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It’s not the best environment for that sometimes.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it’s not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

We’re all living blinkered lives, and we’re not seeing what’s going on and looking to change it. I’m not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what’s happening and why.

Smith and Carlos aside, I object to using the Olympic awards stand to make a political statement.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

I think any time we do drag, especially in 2018, it’s a political statement. Because we’re living in a world where people don’t see drag queens as equal. They don’t see queer people as equal. They don’t see people of any minority as equal.

It’s still a political statement to stand on stage as a person of color and be excellent. We still need those images to combat the narrative we’re often fed – as someone innately inferior or inexorably linked with lack.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, ‘I love beauty.’ I think beauty makes people better.

I’m a walking political statement.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I’m so proud of it, but for me, it’s not a political statement – I just happen to be Scottish.

The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

Baby Got Back’ was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn’t see it as this gigantic political statement.