Paul Kantner Quotes

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

When I see something wrong, I speak up.

There are so many causes that you care about, but one can't change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can - to use a very overworked phrase - truly try to do something to make a difference.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

You can have an impact anywhere you are.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Our world demands action, not passivity; actors and not mere spectators.

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

At some point, Twitter hash tags are not enough. Eventually, you have to stand up.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.