List of John Cusack Quotes

I Think Poets Tell Better History Than Historians. Historians Lie All The Time But The Poets Can Get To Truth Of It.

I Think Any Actor Can Probably Identify With Being A Professional Liar. You Don't Always Look At Yourself That Way, But I Know A Lot Of Days I Do.

It's Supposed To Feel Good To Throw A Brick At The Right People. There Is A Long Tradition Of Naming And Ridiculing And Shaming And Calling The Villains What They Are. Usually It Was The Artistocracy Of The Day And Satire Was The Only Way To Speak Truth To Power.

In The United States, We Can Talk About Isis, But We Can't Talk About Palestine.

If You Help Manufacture An Enemy That's Really Evil, You Can Point To The Fact That It's Really Evil, And Say, "hey, It's Really Evil."

Once You Have Opened Up Prisoner Interrogation, Wiretapping, Border Patrol, Jailing And The Services Of The Military, When This Has Been Turned Into A For-profit Business In This Endless War, Then We're In Deep Trouble.

It Never Hurts To Be Involved In Any Political Or Activist Organization. I Can Never See How Participation Would Be A Bad Thing. The Key Is Being True To What You Participate With And Who.

Not Only Is America A Country Where Torture Is Now Policy. It's Now Outsourced. It's Given To Companies At A Cost-plus Basis. It's A Triple Whammy Of Surreal, Absolute Madness.

I Think It's Very Improtant And Healthy To Tell Differnt Stories Than The Corporatist Narratives We Are Being Asked To Swallow Hook, Line And Sinker.

These People Say Free Markets Are The Way To Go, But Wink, Wink, The Markets Aren't Really Free. They're Just A Protectionist Racket, And We Have To Pay For It All On Every Level. It's Really Quite Extraordinary, And Immoral, And Illegal. These Things Need To Be Named, And Shamed, And Outed, And Mocked, And Prosecuted.

When You See A Culture Where The Intellectual Architects Of The Invasion Are Not Shamed For Their Behavior But Rewarded Within The Mainstream Media Culture, Black Comedy, Satire, Absurdism Is The Only Response.

Satire Is Meant To Have Teeth; Satire Is Meant To Be Dangerous. But It Also Happens To Be Fun Because Subversion And Telling The Right Kind Of People To Go To Hell Is Supposed To Feel Good.