Political Action

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity,

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

Political action means taking

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

If Occupy Wall Street

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

You don’t want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our ‘Truth,’ and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing ‘In atheism we trust’ on all US currency and saying, ‘One nation, under atheism in the pledge of allegiance. … Read more

Cults and prophets proclaiming

Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort of fun to ridicule them the morning after, when they discover that their calculations were a little off. But, just as with Marxists, there are some among them who are working … Read more

America is at that

America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we’ve gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. … Something’s eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it … Read more

The only reason the

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be … Read more

I think the big

I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I’d ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It … Read more

Government agents (and their

Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action. Cass Sunstein

The specific political distinction

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