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Action Quotes by Howard Zinn
- Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
- There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large,…
- Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of…
- Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can…
- I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I…
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle