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Quotes About Action

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!
~ Walt Whitman
Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now.
~ Samuel Untermyer
Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
~ William Shakespeare
Headquarters in the Saddle.
~ John Pope
As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
~ Albert Ellis
You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
~ Steve Scalise
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
~ Richard Bach
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
I am a war president.
~ George W. Bush
Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?
~ Gaspar Noe
This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
~ Paul Haggis
Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
~ Howard Zinn
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
~ Jeff Goodell
Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.
~ Lech Walesa
The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.
~ Matt Reeves
There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan