Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin DisraeliDissatisfaction with the world in which we live and determination to realize one that shall be better, are the prevailing characteristics of the modern spirit. (The Greek View of Life)
Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. [The Categorical Imperative]
Imannuel KantAbsolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
Martha BeckThought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheMost of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
Story MusgraveA desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn RandAn action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.
Lion FeuchtwangerAccuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.
Adlai E StevensonAbuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John AdamsAction and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri-Frederic AmielCourage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur KoestlerTesco can't solve all, or even a fraction of, the problems in the developing world but we are a positive force.
Sir Terry LeahyThe kind of attacks made for instance against me - the Welsh windbag - did produce in the Labour movement an over-reaction which was understandable.
Neil KinnockBusiness is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it
Owen FelthamThere can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
Ayn RandAmerican society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry AdamsOne attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
Peter BrodieEvery public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time
Francis CornfordDoes anyone want to come backstage and have a bit of hot action? Cool! I'll see you there in five minutes okay? - (Ben at the Smash Hits Awards after winning most fanciable male)
Ben AdamsEnglishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B YeatsA man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it (Maid In Waiting)
John GalsworthyTennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean KingAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
AristotleLeadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold GeneenThe bowler is Holding, the batsmen's Willey - (unfortunate description of the cricketing action!)
Brian JohnstonAs soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss
Noam ChomskyMy actions at the Alamo are justified as is my participation in them!
Antonio Lopez De Santa AnnaIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David HumeSuit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
Joan RiversDo you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas JeffersonI was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]
Shahar PeerI saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur RimbaudI was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
Harold McMillanYou recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free passage and freedom of action to all buyers and sellers whoever they may be.
Francois QuesnayIt is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jacob BronowskiThe path of weakness and inaction [describing John Kerry]
George W BushLiterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare PaveseIf you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
Maynard JacksonThe price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister EckhartThere is only one proof of ability, - action
Marie Von Ebner-EschenbachWords without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert HooverHe is clearly showing up, not as an athlete but as a celebrity... folks are viewing him not as a leader of men but as the husband of Posh. Beckham's appeal is as a tourist attraction, the latest Disneyland ride [on David Beckham]
Bill PlaschkeThere's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Dustin HoffmanOnce is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action
Ian FlemingIt wasn't the reaction I was expecting. I thought a couple of things might have landed on my head
Dennis WiseAction seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William JamesWhat we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund FreudA man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Sir Arthur Helps
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