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Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.) — Stephen B. Pearl

Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless. — Oswald Mosley

A plan without action isn't a plan, it's a speech. — T. Boone Pickens

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. — Max Weber

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action. — Nelson Mandela

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action. — Richard Rohr

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste. — John Waters

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one! — Edmund Stoiber

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action. — Ulrike Meinhof

TV-based politics is to political action as watching ER is to saving someone in distress. — Robert D. Putnam

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action? — Adlai Stevenson I

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany. — Bruce Lipton

Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action. — Steve Crawshaw

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action. — Jean-Paul Sartre

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action. — Harry Bridges

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash. — James Hansen

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed. — P. J. O'Rourke

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both. — Heather Paxson

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well. — Carne Ross

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action. — Tony Judt

Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise. — Peter Zeihan

If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it. — George W. Bush

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy. — Carl Schmitt

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. — David Harvey

The essential thing is the formation of the political will of the nation: that is the starting point for political action. — Adolf Hitler

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action. — Ralph Ellison

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action. — Robert David Steele

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics. — Ron Paul

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don't fall. — Henry Mosquera

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore De Balzac

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. — Howard Rheingold

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government. — Bob Dole

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action. — Alexander Mackenzie

I don't care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he's addicted to craps. — Henry Mosquera

When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman

interests of mankind as a whole, but they do not suffice to determine political action. Perhaps they will do so at — Anonymous

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. — Paul Kantner

Voting is the foundation stone for political action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon. — William H. Calvin

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is. — Jimmy Carter

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. — Harold Washington