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
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
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
We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free. — Allen W. Wood 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
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
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
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems. — Dominic Cummings 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
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence. — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of… — Norbert Lynton 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
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
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
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of… — Louis Pasteur 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
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless… — Charles Spurgeon 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
I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the… — Augustus Toplady 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
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
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
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
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle 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
