Activism Quote by Michel Foucault

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

— Chris Long

I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the environment. It…

— Jeff VanderMeer

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

— Michel Foucault

“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense…

— Deborah B. Gould

Some of the most valuable stuff I do has to do with my dissenting from the general opinion about people in movements.

— Harvey Pekar

“Political awareness without activism means looking at the devastation, your face turned toward the center of things. Activism can generate hope because in itself…

— Rebecca Solnit

The core problem is not that we are too passionate about bad things, but that we are not passionate enough about good things.

— Larry Crabb

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really…

— Alice Walker

Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.

— Rahul Gandhi

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm really bad at being nonviolent.

— Vanessa Veselka

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