The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Action is character.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

‚Getting smart on crime‘ does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs – hadn’t been done for a long time, and it’s illegal in most countries – in the air controller strike.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.