Political Action Quotes - Page 3

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

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Political

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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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• 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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• Steve Bannon went to the Conservative Political Action Conference and he said that there was a very important historical turning point, getting rid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And the Republican Party has stood for that for as long as I have been alive.

  Mark Shields

  Party, Long, Political

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• If Milo [Yiannopoulos] were a liberal, he could say whatever and then some, and he wouldn't be addressing Conservative Political Action Conference, he would be emceeing the Oscars.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Would Be, Oscars

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• 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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• Where I think Milo [Yiannopoulos] ran into trouble -when word spread that Milo had been invited to be the keynote speaker at Conservative Political Action Conference. I think CPAC, by inviting Milo, was an attempt to reach out to Millennials. I mean, they know. I know plenty of young people that think Milo is great, love Milo, admire Milo, think he's courageous doing what he does.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality can be created. If I begin by saying to them: "Thou
  shalt not lie," there is no longer any possibility of political action. What matters first is the liberation of man.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Lying, Men, What Matters

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  Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Reflection, Political

  Source: wordmag.com

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• In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.

  Malcolm X

  People, Community, Political

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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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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• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

  William H. Calvin

  Real, Focus, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.165, William H. Calvin

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• I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

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• I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

  Tony Judt

  Believe, Should Have, Political

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• power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

  Hannah Arendt

  Power, Self, Political

  Origins of Totalitarianism ch. 5 (1951)

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• What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Real, Believe, Gun

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.275, SUNY Press

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• What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we have no art culture, and we've long considered politics nebbish-y and hopelessly unsexy. So a lot of what would be considered political activism is channeled into cultural work.

  Ian Svenonius

  Art, America, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Play

  Paul Feyerabend (2001). “Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action.

  Adolf Hitler

  Political Will, Essentials, Action

  Adolf Hitler (1994). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Fighting, Gay, Rights

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• I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Taken, Thinking, Political

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, Evil, Envy

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