Quotes About Action

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

Like you, I think of myself as many things, as if the thinking made it so. In the meantime, while I think - while you think, while we think - our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

I think about all of the things I've done, Oskar. And all of the things I didn't do. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

The important measurement is not the distance from unattainable perfection, but from unforgivable inaction.

We believe that the environmental crisis is caused by large outside forces and therefore can be solved only by large outside forces. But recognizing that we are responsible for the problem is the beginning of taking responsibility for the solution.

We dramatically overstate the role of science deniers, because it allows science acceptors to feel righteous without challenging us to act on the knowledge we accept. Only 14 percent of Americans deny climate change, which is a significantly lower percentage than who deny evolution, or that the earth orbits the sun. Sixty-nine percent of American voters—including the majority of Republicans—say that the United States should have remained in the Paris climate accord.

No one who isn't us is going to destroy Earth, and no one who isn't us is going to save it. The most hopeless conditions can inspire the most hopeful actions. We have found ways to restore life on Earth in the event of a total collapse because we have found ways to cause a total collapse of life on Earth. We are the flood, and we are the ark.

In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.

Wir können uns nicht mit Unwissenheit herausreden, nur mit Gleichgültigkeit.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

At this moment in the environmental movement, we can jump from the bridge, or we can cross it. We can allow the fear that it's too late or too difficult to ensure resources for future generations to incapacitate us, or we can allow those fears to capacitate us.

Le dérèglement climatique n'est pas un puzzle que l'on pose sur une table basse, vers lequel on peut revenir quand les contraintes horaires nous le permettent et que l'envie nous en prend. Le dérèglement climatique, c'est une maison en flammes.

La seule dichotomie qui compte est celle qui sépare ceux qui agissent de ceux qui ne font rien. [...] Nous exagérons dramatiquement le rôle de ceux qui refusent les conclusions de la science parce que cela permet à ceux qui les acceptent de se sentir en paix avec eux-mêmes, sans pour autant nous mettre au défi d'agir en utilisant le savoir que nous avons intégré.

Kötü kiÅŸi, kötü eylemlerini keder etmeyen kimsedir.

Punch with your mouth and talk with your feet.

can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?

No podemos alegar ignorancia, solo indiferencia. Los que vivimos hoy sabemos más. Tenemos la oportunidad y la responsabilidad que nos da vivir en un momento en que la crítica hacia las granjas industriales ha llegado a la conciencia pública. Somos aquellos a quienes se nos preguntará, con toda la justicia del mundo: ¿Qué hiciste cuando te enteraste de lo que implica comer animales?

We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth of about eating animals?

it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

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the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints on human nature, is supposed the great enemy to the freedom of thought and action. Upon

When suffering hits us broadside, it's bound to shake our faith a little—just as if we were driving across a high bridge in a compact car and got hit by a great gust of wind. You have to make sure you have both hands on the wheel! But trials are also meant to waken us to the truth of Daniel 11:32 (ESV), where it says, "The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

Steve introduced me to the process of putting God's Word into practice, of acting on His promises and commands. I would read something in the Bible and consciously say, "This is God's will." Intellectually, I understood the meaning of it. Emotionally, I had to put this new truth to the test, to prove it by my own will. "Yes, this is God's will," adding, "for me.