Quotes About Direct Action

#1. If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Emma Goldman

#2. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

#3. I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

David Pocock

#4. The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

Henry Adams

#5. The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. 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.

#8. We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#9. Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Howard Zinn

#10. Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Emma Goldman

#11. Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.

Howard Zinn

#12. The individualists' ideal was to live their lives as neither exploiter nor exploited - but how to do that in a society divided in this way? Their answer was for people to take direct action through the reprise individuelle, or in slang, la reprise au tas - taking back the whole heap.

Richard Parry

#13. Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.

Matthew Stover

#14. Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Caroline Lucas

#16. Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action.

Julian Assange

#17. Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

David Graeber

#18. It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain.

Jules Verne

#19. Our institutions and agencies are no longer working for us. It is time to reimagine the wilderness movement as a movement of direct action, time to reimagine our public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. Time to rethink what is acceptable and what is not.

Terry Tempest Williams

#20. A successful direct action is like creating a good fantasy story. It's like a quest," Phillips said excitedly in the introduction. "There is a conflict, compelling characters, a good plan, build up, twists and turns, adversity, the climax, and then the win

Anonymous

#21. Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Henry Miller

#22. What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#23. It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self's relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action.

William Burnham Woods

#27. There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action - of not going through the forms that the society offers you, of representative government, of voting, of legislation, but directly taking power.

Howard Zinn

#28. So although the campaign for women's votes continued and the Bill was repeatedly brought back to Parliament, for nearly a generation most women held back from direct action and unladylike encroachment on the established power of men.

Neil MacGregor

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

Emma Goldman

#30. Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Arthur Scargill

#31. Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him.

Hiroyuki Sanada

#32. Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

William Whewell

#33. I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

Karan Johar

#34. My inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.

Ann Aguirre

#35. If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

#36. In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Ruben Aguilar

#37. The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

Rand Paul

#38. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.

Fernando Pessoa

#39. I called the hotel operator and she said, "How can I direct your call?" I said, "Well, you could say 'Action!', and I'll begin to dial. And when I say 'Goodbye', then you can yell 'Cut!'"

Mitch Hedberg

#40. Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.

Joseph Joubert

#41. What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it was clear from the way his gaze smoldered into mine. In that way, it was like an optical erection.

Jeaniene Frost

#42. Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

David Eagleman

#43. I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#44. For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

Martin Luther King Jr.

#45. I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of 'Singham,' I saw an opportunity to return to my first love.

Rohit Shetty

#46. There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.

Bradley Byrne

#47. I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.

Adrian Tomine

#48. A man must have confidence in himself and his cock, to fuck a woman in the ass. If he does not have this control, his cock will direct the action; he will move too quickly, hurt the once-willing woman, and rarely, rightly, will he be given a second chance.

Toni Bentley

#49. There is almost no direct relationship between the amount of a nutrient consumed at a meal and the amount that actually reaches its main site of action in the body - what is called its bioavailability.

T. Colin Campbell

#50. An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

Vladimir Lenin

#51. Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Dale Carnegie

#52. Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

James Altucher

#53. It takes a leader to create the momentum, it takes a vision to direct the momentum, it takes a massive action to build on the momentum, and it takes self-discipline to sustain the momentum. Momentum is the bridge between a vision and its results.

Farshad Asl

#54. Moreover, the church might be obliged to not only "bind up the wounds of those who have fallen beneath the wheel . . . but at times halt the wheel itself" by taking direct political action.

Anonymous

#55. Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

Shoshana Zuboff

#56. I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Terry Tempest Williams

#57. Every action today leads to murder, direct or indirect.

Albert Camus

#58. You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

Colin Trevorrow

#59. I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.

Jay Baruchel

#60. Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#61. The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Eric Hoffer

#62. The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

Constantin Stanislavski

#63. Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

Erika Hall

#64. If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

Phil Foglio

#65. I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side.

Jason Momoa