Political Action Quotes - Page 2

• Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

  Paul Krugman

  Class, Political, Action

  Paul Krugman (2015). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America From The Right”, p.25, Penguin UK

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• 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 changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

  Ron Paul

  Political, Peaceful, Necessary Change

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• Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

  Honore de Balzac

  Power, Political, Principles

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• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

  Tom Robbins

  Attitude, Opposites, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

  Ron Paul

  Goal, Political, Liberty

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working hard to "hasten the inevitable," not merely anticipating the End Days with joy in their hearts, but taking political action to bring about the conditions they think are the prerequisites for that occasion.

  Daniel Dennett

  Morning, Fun, Heart

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.294, Penguin UK

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• 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 what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?

  John Dewey

  Mean, Opportunity, Political

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• 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 of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Support, Political, Purpose

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• 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 change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.

  Leo Strauss

  Political, Wish, Action

  Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• 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, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Creativity, Self, Creating

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• 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 avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Offending, People

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

  Bob Dole

  Government, Giving, Political

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• The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Independent, Political, Gold

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.

  Claire Wolfe

  Children, Gun, America

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• Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Government, Space

  "String Theories: We're Living In Cass Sunstein's World, Get Used To It" by Tom Siebert, www.mediapost.com. February 19, 2018.

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• When one questions [Dalai Lama's] political actions, it is worth remembering that he's the single most experienced politician on the planet at this moment.

  Pico Iyer

  Political, Action, Remember

  Source: layoga.com

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• By themselves, they are not enough; we also need to engage in political action.

  Bill McKibben

  Political, Needs, Action

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Political

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• Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Art, Drawing, Expression

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• A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drinking, Holiday, Glasses

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• This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Animal, Weekend, Ducks

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• This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.

  Jill Stein

  War, Agency, Political

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• 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

  Country, Support, Political

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• The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

  Carl Schmitt

  Political, Enemy, Action

  Carl Schmitt (2008). “The Concept of the Political: Expanded Edition”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

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