Action Quote by François Rabelais

“because men that are free,well born,well bred,and conversant in honest companies have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions,and withdraws…

— Rabelais Francoise

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation…

— Aristotle

“Shall I not render a service to men in speaking to them only of morality? This morality is so pure, so holy, so universal,…

— Voltaire

“What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that,…

— Epictetus

“In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

“we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they try, and…

— C.S. Lewis

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the commonwealth, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the…

— C.S. Lewis

“Men of action must be led by men of virtue, else there is no honor, merely chaos and barbarism.”

— Curtis Craddock

All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be…

— George Berkeley