Action Quotes

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

When a man takes time to consider whether he will do a good or civil action, be assured he will never do it. The baser feelings, the calculations of interest and timidity, always prevail.

My goal was to turn activism into action.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

Circumstances do not shape us so much as they reveal us.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.