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
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner 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
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
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
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. — Joseph Wood Krutch 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
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth 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
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
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
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
In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk 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
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
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
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
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are… — Paul Feyerabend 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
If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the… — Alfred Billings Street Copy Share Image
There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
