Political Action Quotes
39 Political Action quotes by 37 unique authors
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore de Balzac
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Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
— John F. Kennedy
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another sour sort of…
— Daniel Dennett
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What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
— John Dewey
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Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.
— William H. Calvin
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
— Ludwig von Mises
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to…
— Leo Strauss
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
— Grover Cleveland
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When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
— Bob Dole
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Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
— Nelson Mandela
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What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.
— Martin Landau
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Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts…
— Cass Sunstein
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If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
— Ulrike Meinhof
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Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary…
— Ron Paul
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Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.
— Paul Krugman
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
— Harry Bridges
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If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political…
— Michel Foucault
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I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and…
— Naomi Wallace
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The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.
— Paul Kantner
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,…
— Harold Rosenberg
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If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action…
— David Harvey
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The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever…
— James Joll
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