Ashamed Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as…

— Pankaj Mishra

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal…

— Tom Robbins

All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side…

— Doris Lessing

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

— William S. Burroughs

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

— Vijay Prashad

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

— Charles Ives

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is…

— Larry Kramer

I don't believe in hopping from one social issue to the next to be a part of the movement for a moment. Anything I'm…

— Machine Gun Kelly

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part…

— Marley Dias

I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that…

— Eugene Puryear

“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their…

— Matthew Fox

I believe in sharing and contributing to society without being in politics.

— Nana Patekar