Quotes of: Community-action Keyword

Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language.

Marty Rubin

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Noam Chomsky

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

Noah Hathaway

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Ninon de L'Enclos

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Shoshana Zuboff

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

Alexander Mackenzie

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Denis Diderot

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Neale Donald Walsch

The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

Lael Brainard

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

Noam Chomsky

The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Indira Gandhi

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Vladimir Lenin

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

Les Brown

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Barry Commoner

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

C. L. R. James

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

Donnie Yen

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

John Burns

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Louisa May Alcott

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

Oswald Mosley

Hockey should have some appeal. It's a good game in that is full of action, very quick, and it can be high-scoring.

Casey Eastham