Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein 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
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. — Jeremy Siegel 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher 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
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to… — Jason Stanley Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises 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
In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human… — Jerome Ravetz Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void… The judgment of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image