Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Graeber

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

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.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Howard Zinn

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

Rita Brown

If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.

Mark Haddon

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

Elizabeth Mackay

I think if they were to make such a move, this would be a logical week,

Christopher Shays

I don't think she can be objective because, frankly, I would want to know what was she doing in that time, before the storm, during the storm, after the storm. She is going to be one of the people that, in a sense, is being investigated. So I'm not sure that she's the logical choice.

Allard Beutel

The program is being logical and looking at what can be done.

Fred Humes

When you look at it, it is the most logical thing to do.

Jim Goodman

This seems like a logical use for this property.

Louis Freeh

We will pursue this matter, ... to whatever end, to whatever consequence, to whatever logical and just conclusion. And you have my promise that I will do whatever I can to see that occurs in the years to come.

Michele Quinn

We were doing so much with them already. It seemed like the most logical step.

Michael Keaton

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

Simone Signoret

There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine.

Alan Alda

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

Megan Fox

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Mike Murphy

We played OK -- I thought we were a little sluggish and methodical on offense in the first half. I thought we got out-hustled in the first half.

Beth Henley

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Charles Beichman

We don't know anything about planets around very young stars because the radial velocity method doesn't work with them,

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.