Quotes About Action

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

man's function is not just to think—which Aristotle admits to be the highest of all human activities—but also to do.

Common sense tells us that we can understand and navigate our way through that reality, and common sense tells us that the more we know about that outside world, the better we can act on it, both as individuals and as members of a community.

Neither the Mensheviks nor the SRs made any protest at this clearly repressive political action—

action is best, which produces the greatest happiness for the greatest number

Don't think, try. —John Hunter

It cultivated the same hatreds (industrial capitalism, soulless liberalism, cultural degradation) as its academic mentors, and many of the same goals. There was, however, one important difference. Radicals like Eckhart, Rosenberg, and Hitler were willing to contemplate direct action to overturn what they saw as a sick civilization, not just talk about it.

When the ruler or rulers failed to act in the people's interest, Buchanan wrote, then each and every citizen, even "the lowest and meanest of men," had the sacred right and duty to resist that tyrant, even to the point of killing him.

Only that which is done

Redeneren wordt je dood. Het is overleven op intuitie of anders niet. Geloof me, bij een leven als dit moet je niet te lang stilstaan.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I 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.

I came a fabulous opera. I saw that all beings have a fatality for happiness: action is not life, but a way of spending your strength, an irritation. Morality is a weakness of the brain.

Vi que todos los seres tienen una fatalidad de dicha: la acción no es la vida, sino una forma de malgastar una fuerza, un enervamiento. La moral es la debilidad del cerebro.

La Poésie ne rythmera plus l'action; elle sera en avant.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Let us begin with the fine-structure constant. ... The fine-structure constant is really the ratio of two natural units or atoms of action. ... We obtain action when we multiply energy by time. ... We are challenged to find a unified theory of electric particles and radiation in which the electrostatic type of action and the quantum type of action are traced to their source.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

código del escorpión: mira despacio, pica rápido y vete más rápido todavía. —De

Todavía me observó, pensativa, y luego se puso en pie para buscar en uno de los estantes. Mientras lo hacía, el perro —era una perra— se alzó sobre sus patas, me dio una vuelta alrededor y volvió a tumbarse con indiferencia en el mismo sitio que antes.

En algunos momentos de la Historia, la pasividad es un crimen.