4 William Saroyan Quotes on Politics

William Saroyan quotes on politics

94. Art can no longer afford to be contemptuous of politics, and it appears to be time politics took a little instruction from art.

95. 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.

96. Art and politics must move closer together. Reflection and action must be equally valid in good men if history is not to take one course and art an other.

97. Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs is better men.