Action Quote by Simone Weil

Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting…

— Clarence John Laughlin

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays…

— Owen Feltham

People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform…

— Mikhail Bakunin

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we…

— Marquis de Sade

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as…

— Obama

“Mass culture is enlightenment in reverse. Its goal is precisely to wipe out that last little garrison of human autonomy.”

— Rick Roderick

“Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.”

— Tom Hayes

“Relate to a life situation in the deepest sense: not from the standpoint of the ego that bemoans its fate and rebels against it,…

— Max Zeller

Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert…

— Stephen Batchelor

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the…

— Marianne Williamson