Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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 being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — W. H. Auden 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist… — Robert Watson-Watt 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
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
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
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
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
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
No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action. — Michelene Wandor Copy Share Image
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner 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
“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
