Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle” — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. — Hugh Elliot Copy Share Image
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Reality: "If we can sue the gun manufacturers for human actions, does this mean we can sue the car manufacturers for being… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. — Michelene Wandor Copy Share Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Positive human action is not only possible, but pervasive; human beings can improve and choose light and so on. And this is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image