Human Action Quotes

43 quotes by 36 authors

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world… — David Graeber
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far… — John Ruskin
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What… — Ludwig von Mises
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as… — Ludwig von Mises
There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range… — Ludwig von Mises
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world… — Winston Churchill
The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our… — Tony Dungy
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the… — Carlos Fuentes
God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing… — Mark Twain
January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was… — Patricia Highsmith
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 men are willing.… — Charles Spurgeon
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations… — Adam Ferguson
Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many… — Quentin Bryce
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… — Bertrand Russell
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek… — Henry George
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time… — Joseph Wood Krutch

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