Apolitical Quotes

• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Love, Peace, Powerful

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

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• I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.

  Bruce Willis

  Hate, Writing, Government

  "Interview: Bruce Willis (16 Blocks)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Choices, Political, Endorsements

  Interview with Benjamin Cohen, believermag.com. September 2009.

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• And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

  Tom Hanks

  House, Dinner

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

  Diane Wakoski

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

  Milos Forman

  Decision, Political, Influence

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• I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Thinking, Live Your Life, Becoming

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• Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

  Ivan Illich

  People, Political, Narcissistic

  Ivan Illich (1992). “In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990”, Marion Boyars

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, Disappointing

  "Cate Blanchett talks to 7.30 about her new movie and marriage equality". "7.30" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. December 18, 2015.

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• One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, Mean, People

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• Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

  Julia Kristeva

  Fashion, War, Cities

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• From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

  Brad Thor

  Mean, Thinking, Purple

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• 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

  Thinking, Political Opinions, Brain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am an apolitical Prime Minister. Apart from elections, I don't get involved into politics ever.

  Narendra Modi

  Election, Prime, Ministers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.in

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• Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.

  Michael Crichton

  Mean, Acceptance, White

  Michael Crichton's Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, www.epw.senate.gov. September 28, 2005.

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• It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Book, Reading, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1984). “Grunch* of Giants: *Gross Universe Cash Heist”, p.10, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

  Karl Hess

  Revolutionary, Neighbor, Knows

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• There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

  Bill Ayers

  Ideas, Political, Privilege

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Football, Communication, Mean

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• There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, Political, Ridiculous

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• I believe in collaboration, which is why I work with others to make positive contributions of consequence, and why I have made a very clear and unwavering commitment to remain absolutely apolitical.

  Cliff Curtis

  Believe, Commitment, Collaboration

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• What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get you. It's not that you shouldn't be neutral. It's that you won't be able to stay neutral.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Able, Used

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• I am publicly apolitical.

  Alton Brown

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with Joe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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