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Action Quotes by George Orwell
- Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual…
- Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed…
- The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.
- Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general…
- Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of…
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