Bob Dylan Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

• How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Years, People

  'Blowin' in the Wind' (1962 song)

• If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Believe, Paradise

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?, 1978

• Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

  Bob Dylan

  Kings, Jail, Politics

  "Sweetheart Like You". Song by Bob Dylan, bobdylan.com. 1983.

• Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

  Bob Dylan

  School, Church, Politics

  Song: When You Gonna Wake Up ?, Album: Slow Train Coming

• I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Thinking, Doors

• In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Brave, Politics

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

• Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Lasts, Scoundrels

  Song: Sweetheart Like You, Album: Infidels, 1983

• But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

  Bob Dylan

  President, United States, Naked

  "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)

• Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

  Bob Dylan

  Block, Doorways, Politics

• Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Someday, Plans

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

• On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Names, Politics

  Song: Only A Pawn In Their Game, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

• The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Mother, Waiting, Politics

  Song: I Want You, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

• Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Corners, Good Will

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels

• Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

  Bob Dylan

  Enemy, Politics, Masters

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

• The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

  Bob Dylan

  Milk And Honey, Land, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.778, Simon and Schuster

• How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Hands, Politics

  Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

• The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Maps, Politics

  Song: Tombstone Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

• I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Ducks, Politics

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

• There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, World, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

  Bob Dylan

  Way, Toilets, Politics

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

  Bob Dylan

  Progress, Naked, Machines

  Song: Dirge, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

• If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Politics, Next

  Song: With God On Your Side, Album: The Times They Are A-Changin', 1964

• Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.

  Bob Dylan

  Law, Politics, Fool

  Song: No Time to Think, Album: Street Legal, 1978

• All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

  Bob Dylan

  Oil, Politics, Soil

  Song: Slow Train, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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