Action Quote by John Ruskin

All men judge the acts of others by what they would have done themselves

— Proverb

And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his…

— Thomas Hobbes

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents…

— Henry David Thoreau

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

— Terence

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all…

— Richard Steele

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action

— Oscar Wilde

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But…

— George Orwell

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

— Epicurus

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

— Jackson Katz

Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.

— Sophie Swetchine