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Action Quotes
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
"Actions are the flowers of thoughts."
"Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically."
"Take the necessary steps needed to reach your goals."
"The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action."
"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable."
"Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object."
"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
"Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours."
"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."
"You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say."
"I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult."
"So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late."
"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
"One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest."
"I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis."
"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class."
"For each of our actions there are only consequences."
"You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game."
"Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning."
"As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington."
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
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