Deeds Quotes - Page 39

• The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

  "The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, progressive.org. 1951.

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• Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forever, Done, I Forgive You

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.

  Hannah Arendt

  Beautiful, Men, Thinking

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• Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

  Pindar

  Dies

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• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

  Plutarch

  Writing, Character, Battle

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• And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Men, Looks

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

  Ivan Bunin

  Differences, Novelists, Behaviour

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Life And Love, Government

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• Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, People, Wake Up

  "Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments".

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• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

  Gorgias

  Mistake, Men, Errors

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• His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Kindness, Compassion, Expression

  "Life of Christ".

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• Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by secularism. Needless abortion, for instance, is a "reproductive health procedure, . . ." "Illegitimacy" gives way to the wholly sanitized words "non-marital birth" or "alternative parenting."

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Dark, People, Giving

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• Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Wealth, Hubris

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• Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

  Van Morrison

  Christian, Dark, Night

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• We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

  J. B. Priestley

  Coffee, Food, Eye

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• To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Envy, Desire

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.16, Oxford University Press

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• When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Cynical, Needs

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• It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

  Sallust

  Country, Sweet, 4th Of July

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• A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

  Muhammad

  Animal, Deeds Done, Vegetarian

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Heroic Deeds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• In four ways ... should one who flatters be understood as a foe in the guise of a friend: He approves of his friend's evil deeds, he disapproves his friend's good deeds, he praises him in his presence, he speaks ill of him in his absence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Evil, Four

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• Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ocean, Sky

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Puppies: Meditations for the Wise Minds of Puppy Lovers”, p.171, Mango Media Inc.

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• We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

  Pope Clement I

  God, Christian, Letting Go

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• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Evil

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