Human Action Quotes

43 Human Action quotes by 36 unique authors

• 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
• Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the… — Zygmunt Bauman
• Everything dependent on human action is liable to abuse. — John Tyler

Who Wrote These Human Action Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 43 Human Action Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 6 Human Action Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
• 2 Human Action Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
• 1 Human Action Quote by Zygmunt Bauman
• 1 Human Action Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 Human Action Quote by William Graham Sumner
• 1 Human Action Quote by Vicente Fox
• 1 Human Action Quote by Vaclav Havel
• 1 Human Action Quote by Tony Dungy
• 1 Human Action Quote by Thomas Sowell
• 1 Human Action Quote by Stefan Zweig
• 1 Human Action Quote by Robert Watson-Watt
• 1 Human Action Quote by Quentin Bryce
• 1 Human Action Quote by Paul J. Meyer
• 1 Human Action Quote by Paul Feyerabend
• 1 Human Action Quote by Patricia Highsmith
• 1 Human Action Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Human Action Quote by Julian Baggini
• 1 Human Action Quote by Joseph Smith, Jr.
• 1 Human Action Quote by John Tyler
• 1 Human Action Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Human Action Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Human Action Quote by Jason Stanley
• 1 Human Action Quote by James H. Cone
• 1 Human Action Quote by Horst Kohler
• 1 Human Action Quote by Henry George