Social Action Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.
— Kurt Lewin
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action:…
— Barry Commoner
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
— Irving Kristol
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The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.
— Mort Sahl
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The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
— Matt Chandler
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Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
— Philip Zimbardo
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Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action.
— Lowell Milken
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I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,…
— Joan Didion
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Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for…
— Brent Runyon
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The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of…
— Vaclav Havel
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Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength…
— David Sobel
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
— William Bolitho
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The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social…
— John Quincy Adams
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Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and…
— Henri Nouwen
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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…
— Howard Zinn
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The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Who Wrote These Social Action Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Social Action Quotes as follows: