Political Action Quotes

39 Political Action quotes by 37 unique authors

• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
• Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon. — William H. Calvin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole
• Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. — Nelson Mandela
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman
• There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. — Harry Bridges
• If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action. — Jean-Paul Sartre
• Voting is the foundation stone for political action. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 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
• 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
• The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. — Paul Kantner
• 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
• 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
• 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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37 authors contributed a total of 39 Political Action Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Political Action Quotes by Ulrike Meinhof
• 2 Political Action Quotes by Ron Paul
• 1 Political Action Quote by William H. Calvin
• 1 Political Action Quote by Tony Judt
• 1 Political Action Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Political Action Quote by Paulo Freire
• 1 Political Action Quote by Paul Krugman
• 1 Political Action Quote by Paul Kantner
• 1 Political Action Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Political Action Quote by Nelson Mandela
• 1 Political Action Quote by Naomi Wallace
• 1 Political Action Quote by Murray Rothbard
• 1 Political Action Quote by Michel Foucault
• 1 Political Action Quote by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
• 1 Political Action Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Political Action Quote by Martin Landau
• 1 Political Action Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Political Action Quote by Leo Strauss
• 1 Political Action Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 Political Action Quote by John Dewey
• 1 Political Action Quote by Jim Wallis
• 1 Political Action Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
• 1 Political Action Quote by James Joll
• 1 Political Action Quote by Howard Rheingold
• 1 Political Action Quote by Honore de Balzac