Political Opinions Quotes:

I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction after all comes from a different, less rationally manipulable side of the brain. I am personally very attached to reactionary figures like Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, and Céline.

- Pankaj Mishra

topic: Thinking, Political Opinions, Brain, Dostoyevsky, Apolitical

I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

- Robert Barry

topic: Political Opinions, Two, World

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

topic: Political Opinions, Views, Coats

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.220, Vintage

topic: Children, Political Opinions, Knows

Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

- Adolf Hitler

source: Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Religious, Men, Political Opinions, Tenacious

When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

- Al Franken

source: "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Meaningful, Political Opinions, Years

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making fools of themselves, formulating political opinions when they might not be as informed as they might be, but that they retreat and leave politics to the professionals.

- Susan Sontag

source: Source: ctheory.net

topic: Political Opinions, Might, Way, Scorned

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

- Clifford Geertz

topic: Philosophy, Political Opinions, Social

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

- Amanda Palmer

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Artist, Political Opinions, Talking, Talking Politics

Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.117, Criss Jami

topic: Best Friend, Religious, Political Opinions, Closest Friends

My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Political Opinions, Differences, Office

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.112

topic: Pain, Political Opinions, Hatred, Liberality

Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher, to exclude its influence if possible, from social life. The good are rare enough at best. There is no reason to subdivide them by artificial lines. But whether we shall ever be able so far to perfect the principles of society as that political opinions shall, in its intercourse, be as inoffensive as those of philosophy, mechanics, or any other, may well be doubted.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.137, Algora Publishing

topic: Philosophy, Political Opinions, Evil

I'm a guy with a strong political opinion but I'm not a white nationalist.

- Glenn Beck

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Strong, Political Opinions, White

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

- David Mamet

topic: Jobs, Writing, Political Opinions, Woolf

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

- David Mamet

topic: Political Opinions, Vote, Entitled

In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its parties is representative of the political opinions among the citizens. It is reasonable to claim that the people rule itself through the political institutions.

- Torbjorn Tannsjo

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Country, Party, Political Opinions, European Countries, Political Institutions

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

- Victor Hugo

source: Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.461, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Book, Political Opinions, Passionate, Termination

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Thinking, Political Opinions, People

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

- Hilaire Belloc

source: Hilaire Belloc (2008). “The Party System”, p.37, IHS Press

topic: Party, Passion, Political Opinions, Family Tradition

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

- Ron Paul

source: Ron Paul's newsletter (1992), as quoted in "10 Extreme Claims in Ron Paul’s Controversial Newsletters" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2012.

topic: Political Opinions, Support, Liberty, Opinion Polls

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

topic: Russia, Rights, Political Opinions, Roman Emperor, Political Rights

If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.

- Noel Coward

source: "A Talent to Amuse". Book by Sheridan Morley, 1985.

topic: Philosophy, Political Opinions, Wish

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

- Norm MacDonald

topic: Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions, Uncle Tom