Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Scargill

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Howard Zinn

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Howard Zinn

Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

Henry Miller

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Caroline Lucas

When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Julian Assange

Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Brian Cashman

People keep acting like we have some kind of easy schedule the rest of the way because of the records of the teams we're facing, ... Well, don't be so sure. How much of this season have we spent playing to the level of the opposition?

John Tory

Some of these powers, both governance and otherwise, should probably apply to some of the other larger cities in Ontario, that are maybe not as large as Toronto, but are certainly big governments deserving of acting in a more independent fashion.

John Gordon Sinclair

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

Craig Biggio

Some guy in the crowd was trying to be funny and he slapped her upside the head, acting like a 12-year-old, and he ran, ... It was his misfortune that he messed with a Jersey girl. She chased him down and caught him.

Jim Scott

Our goal is not to develop the world. I don't want the agency to have anything come out that makes it look like we don't know what we're doing or acting imprudently.

James Augustine

Our fans are spoiled. We're 20-4 and people are acting like it's the worst year in history. We have two home games in a row now and we have to be ready for them. We can turn this thing right back around.

Mat Staver

Our youth deserve to know the truth about homosexuality - that people can choose to overcome same-sex attractions and that acting on those attractions results in devastating physical, mental and spiritual consequences.

Eric Dubin

Robert Blake realizes the importance to his future acting prospects of not being proven a murderer in a court of law. He also wants to avoid the stigma that O.J. Simpson got after his civil conviction.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I lose you, I lose everything

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm yours, if you'll have me.

C. S. Lewis

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

Carl Sagan

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Paul Rodio

There are so many ifs with this group.

Carl Jung

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

Anton LaVey

What good are friends if they cant do you any good?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.