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'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. -- W. H. Auden
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. -- Nhat Hanh
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. -- John Locke
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. -- Aristotle
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity. -- Martin Rees
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. -- Baruch Spinoza
Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities. -- Hans Jonas
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it. -- Terry Eagleton
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions. -- Zadie Smith
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. -- Adam Johnson
Every human must take responsibility for his actions. -- Jalal Talabani
Tis human actions paint the chart of time. -- James Montgomery
All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. -- Madame de Stael
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. -- Herman Melville
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. -- Albert Einstein
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. -- V. S. Pritchett
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. -- Albert Einstein
All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. -- Vinoba Bhave
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. -- C. S. Lewis
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. -- John Powell
Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. -- David Suzuki
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life. -- Hans Jonas
We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free. -- Allen W. Wood
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire -- Aristotle
Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. -- Corliss Lamont
Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. -- Bill Gates
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. -- Albert Bandura
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. -- George Washington
The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. -- Walter Raleigh
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. -- Baruch Spinoza
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. -- Gerda Lerner
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. -- John Ruskin
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman. -- Pope Francis
Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence. -- Bella Abzug
Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them. -- Ludwig von Mises
Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do. -- John Dewey
Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive. -- Dalai Lama
The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves. -- Tony Robbins
The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed. -- Lesslie Newbigin
Once you realize that human actions affect every bit of earth and sky, you realize that the environment isn't just what surrounds us - it's all one whole. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings. -- Tony Robbins
I think that - not just as a journalist but as a human being - I have the ethical responsibility to avoid actions that can harm innocent people. -- Glenn Greenwald
It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong. -- Michael Moore
Artâ??the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. -- Lawrence Durrell
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions. -- Nick Morgan
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications. -- Robin Marantz Henig
A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations -- Warren G. Bennis
Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip? -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility. -- Kent Nerburn

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