You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.
Doing nothing, badly.
I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.
On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.
If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble.
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.
Much outcry, little outcome.
Charge hell with a bucket of water.
Force, unregulated or ill-regulated, is not only wasted in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the air, they recoil, and bruise itself.
Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.
