„Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.“

— Hunter S. Thompson

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„Art can no longer afford to be contemptuous of politics, and it appears to be time politics took a little instruction from art.“
— William Saroyan
„The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.“
— George Orwell
„The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us“
— Gloria Steinem
„I don't take art as seriously as politics.“
— Orson Welles
„The weakness of art is that great poems do not ennoble politics, as they certainly should, and the trouble with politics is that they inspire poets only to mockery and scorn.“
— William Saroyan