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Action Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
- A good man will never suspect his friends of shady actions: this is part of his goodness. A good man will never be suspected by…
- Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
- I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision…
- If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held…
- There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
- The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for…
- A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity…
- It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there…
- If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate…
- The root of the matter½ the thing I mean½ is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence,…
More Action Quotes
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle