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Social Action Quotes & Sayings

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Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs — Albert Bandura

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing. — Rita Dove

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. — Jessica Mitford

Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception. — Kurt Lewin

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi. — Mort Sahl

Sitting on the sidelines in our interconnected world is not a sufficient response. — Dillon Burroughs

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. — Malcolm Fraser

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. — George Bernard Shaw

Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society. — Noam Chomsky

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. — Oskar Morgenstern

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

They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way. — Joseph O'Connor

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. — Marilyn Butler

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action. — William Bolitho

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. — Joe Heck

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago. — John Maynard Keynes

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935) — Jane Addams

When I am once again whole, I shall visit those factory people; I have deep and abiding convictions concerning social action. — Anonymous

Anarchism ... stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. — Emma Goldman

Revolution is but thought carried into action. — Emma Goldman

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. — Marshall McLuhan

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?' — Jim Wallis

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. — Lowell Milken

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism. — Philip Zimbardo

It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much. — David Smail

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction. — Norman Ralph Augustine

The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church's social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul. — Matt Chandler

[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very good at that. — Pico Iyer

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

In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action. — Leo Baeck

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

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist. — Stanley Milgram

The more positive action you take grounded in presence (stillness), the more effective you will become in your line of duty, work or social life. — Christopher Dines

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. — Rivera Sun