Quotes About Action

Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?

So here is what this movement of millions should do, for a start: announce and enforce the prohibition. Damage and destroy new CO2-emitting devices. Put them out of commission, pick them apart, demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep on investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.

If a pandemic can induce governments to take emergency actions, why can't a climate breakdown that threatens to kill off the very life-support systems of the planet do the same? After this, there can be no more excuses for passivity.

some exercise of the imagination might allow activists to neutralise CO2-emitting devices with easily accessed means.

If we cannot even get rid of the most preposterously unnecessary emissions, how are we going to begin moving towards zero?

Do we conclude that the only thing left is learning to die – a position already propounded by some – and slide down the side of the crater into three, four, eight degrees of warming? Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?

Talk! Talk! Talk!' he exclaimed after yet another convention of a pacifist abolitionist society. 'That will never free the slaves! What is needed is action – action.

Trust your instincts and your talents, you will be surprised how often they lead you on the right course of action" Andreas Simic

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

What do I do next?' 'Maybe it's your time to wait too.' She dug the heels of her boots firmly into the ground and set her shoulders more stiffly against the sea breeze. 'Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

This shortfall can be traced to the law of supply and demand, and to a mix of government inaction when action was needed, and intervention when it would have been better to leave well enough alone.

No tragedy is greater than that of a single person who is afraid to do the right thing

Nosotros solíamos decir que el cerebro sin aplicación es como la belleza sin bondad. Es un desperdicio.

Talk is cheap, exploration and discovery is hard

If you fuse knowledge of your transcendent origin with tireless service in and for God, you will come, on earth and in this body, to know divine joy and be fed by the ceaseless passion-energy of divine love. Human and divine, inner peace and outer action, knowledge and love, will be married in you at ever greater depths to make you an ever more powerful and radiant warrior for Love and Justice in all dimensions.

He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Thinking is an art because it requires you to listen to your thoughts and then do something with them.

Don't leave "broken windows" (bad designs, wrong decisions, or poor code) unrepaired. Fix each one as soon as it is discovered. If there is insufficient time to fix it properly, then board it up. Perhaps you can comment out the offending code, or display a "Not Implemented" message, or substitute dummy data instead. Take some action to prevent further damage and to show that you're on top of the situation.

Andrew J. Bacevich

The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

I was at the edge of my experience, and the only way I was going to expend my frontier was to act.