Human Actions Quotes. QuotesGram

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

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.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.