Iris Apfel Quotes

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

I intend to stay dangerous.

I'm comfortable playing aggressively.

In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness!.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

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

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

You must play boldly to win.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

Fortune favours the bold.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Direct action means resort to non-constitutional methods that can take any form which many suit the conditions under which we live. We cannot eliminate any methods.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

I don’t care how annoying or loud I am. It’s important to be loud.

I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see those as emotionally aggressive tactics. I see people putting their lives on the line and being bold and brave.

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King.

I like to think of myself as fearless.

I always put myself out there. I'm not afraid to commit to something.