Quotes About Action

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

They said the world was divided into those folks who ran away from danger, and those who ran toward it.

My body's been here before a thousand times, and it gets on with the job without asking my brain if it has anything to say about opening fire.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

of it, a man who did his fair share of killing

People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.

You can't light a match, then act surprised when your house burns down.

Jeffrey standing in the rain, his coat collar turned up to the cold. "There was a cat in the road. It had been hit, and it was obviously dead." Tessa was silent, waiting. "And?" she prompted. "And he picked it up and moved it out of the road so that no one else would hit it.

The worst part was that she was turning into one of those annoying people who got so caught up whining about a bad situation that they forgot they were actually capable of doing something about it.

She closed the blade with a snap, tucking it into her back pocket as she went to let Nan in.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

When heedful interrelating produces mindful action, this is an example of people acting in order to think. What is different is that the acting is more relationally sensitive and the thinking is more situationally mindful. With fuller attention there is less confirmation bias.

Nebo: lidé prý vidÄ›li neÅ¡tÄ›stí, netajili se s tím a varovali. Ale to v politice neplatí, jestliže to nevedlo k ?in?m a jestliže tyto ?iny nebyly úsp?šné.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.

Hic Rhodus, hic salta! Here is the rose, here dance!

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.

Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. (Marx, 1963)

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however, is to change it