Non Political Quotes

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Men, Political

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• Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Religious, Men, Political

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• I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

  Andrew Sullivan

  People, Political, Enjoy

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• Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Political, Partisans

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

  Adam Hochschild

  Russia, Political, Revolution

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Support, Political

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that military, corporate, and non-political organizations are pretty much similar.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.

  Adam Hochschild

  Thinking, Political Differences, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations, civic groups, all under the banner of building black empowerment, human dignity, economic development, political mobilization.

  Manning Marable

  Organization, Political, Black

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

  Adolf Hitler

  Giving, Political, Police

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

  Ari Fleischer

  Love, Sports, Golf

  "With Rhetoric On Immigrants, Trump Risks Teeing Off Golf Industry" by Steve Holland, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2015.

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• There was in Italy a hidden demand for a boring government which would try to tell the truth in non-political jargon.

  Mario Monti

  Government, Political, Trying

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• I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Decision, Political

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

  Channing Tatum

  Political, Upset, Soldier

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

  Earle Brown

  Political, Creation, Used

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• I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

  Toni Morrison

  Real, Believe, Artist

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

  Joan Kirner

  Inspiring, Empowering, Decision

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• From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

  Harry Browne

  Cancer, Rain, Loss

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• There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.

  Harold Pinter

  Art, Political, Intellectual

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Motivation, Mean, Skills

  Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Thinking, Hatred, Political

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.171, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Cat, Independent, Reality

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