Quotes About Action

The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress. P. 41

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!" Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: "Nay, come, let's go together.

generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And

The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

Take responsibility for the face of the world.

The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds.

After the Reichstag fire, Hannah Arendt wrote that "I was no longer of the opinion that one can simply be a bystander.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.

When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.

Every large-scale shooting action of the Holocaust (more than thirty-three thousand Jews murdered outside Kyiv, more than twenty-eight thousand outside Riga, and on and on) involved the regular German police. All in all, regular policemen murdered more Jews than the Einsatzgruppen.

you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.

Practice corporeal politics.

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.

Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.

Failure to act always brings consequences. But sometimes, those consequences can be turned to one's advantage.

Don't do the things in life as duties. Take and do it as a RESPONSIBILITY.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.