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Action Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
- Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we…
- You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
- People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They…
- These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.
- Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is…
- In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a…
- It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.
- U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservationof what we might call the Fifth Freedom, understood crudely but with a…
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — 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
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius