Human Actions Quotes - Page 3

• Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

  James H. Cone

  Reflection, Creating, People

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• If such external influences are intrinsic to religion, then logic and scientific thought dictate that there must be a mechanism by which this influence is transmitted. A religious or spiritual belief that involves an invisible undetectable force that nonetheless influences human actions and behavior or that of the world itself produces a situation in which a believer has no choice but to have faith and abandon logic--or simply not care.

  Lisa Randall

  Spiritual, Religious, Choices

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• Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Principles, Imbalance, Action

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• I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.

  Augustus Toplady

  Men, Agency, Evil

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• As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Creating, Community, Climate

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Stories, Landscape, Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what I think is going to kill us is climate change or World War IV," and that's not what I'm interested in at all. The point is not about winning a bet about what's going to happen. The point is about the human action of examining the possibility, the kind of obsessive imagining about it.

  Lucy Corin

  War, Winning, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Communication, Successful, Keys

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.

  Jimenez Lai

  Selfish, Thinking, Requirements

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

  Allen W. Wood

  Action, Criteria, Humans

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Morality, Action, Influence

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• He who has been impoverished for a long timewho has long stood before the door of the mighty in darkness and begged for alms,has filled his heart with bitterness so that it resembles a sponge full of gall; he knows about the injustice and folly of all human action and sometimes his lips tremble with rage and a stifled scream.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Doors, Long

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• In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.

  Raymond Geuss

  Exercise, Important, Action

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

  Alfred Billings Street

  Hope, Lasting Happiness, Giving

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• In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot look at history, or at any human action, except as I look at the individual.) The Greeks had good food, good witty talk, pleasant dinner parties; and they were content. When the individual man had reached that condition in Athens, when the thought not of giving to the state but of what the state could give to him, Athens' freedom was doomed.

  Edith Hamilton

  Witty, Party, Men

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• We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Events, Extinction, Firsts

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• It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good, the right, the true, or the rational in complete abstraction from the way in which these items figure in the motivationally active parts of the human psyche, and particularly in abstraction from the way in which they impinge, even if indirectly, on human action.

  Raymond Geuss

  Mistake, Believe, Understanding

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.28, Princeton University Press

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• All human actions are an attempt to meet needs.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Needs, Action

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• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

  Henry George

  Men, Law, Political

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

  Martin Rees

  Loss, Action, Global Warming

  "Dark materials". Essay by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Practice, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

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• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Self, Action

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

  George W. Bush

  History, Movement, Determined

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 31 January 2006

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• The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Class, Two, Action

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.115

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