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Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me — Marquis De Sade

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. — David Suzuki

Judging the actions of the many by those of the one is both human and dangerous. — Sherwood Smith

Evry human being want changes, but most human beings lack actions, and no change comes without action. — Hamzat Haruna Ribah

A human being may not choose her circumstances, but she does choose her actions — Fredrik Backman

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

There is something horribly hypocritical about passing judgement on another human beings actions from the comfort and safety of an armchair — Daniel Allen Butler

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions. — Albert Einstein

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

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily. — Agatha Christie

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. — C.S. Lewis

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. — Amit Kalantri

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. — John Powell

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions. — Vinoba Bhave

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. — George Washington

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops. — Corliss Lamont

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour. — Oskar Morgenstern

Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did. — Criss Jami

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small. — Dianna Hardy

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

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

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. — Madame De Stael

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. Aristotle — Christine Zolendz

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions. — Bill Gates

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — W. H. Auden

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. — Walter Raleigh

Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change — Daniel Egger

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

Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself. — Christopher Hitchens

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. — Frank Harris

We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness. — V.S. Pritchett

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville

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 Dostoyevsky

Humans are strange. ... They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. ... it's vanity. — Robert Jackson Bennett

I never listen to what a person says. I look at what a person does because what they do tells me who they really are. — Patty Houser

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher

'Tis human actions paint the chart of time. — James Montgomery

Education does not define you as a "HUMAN BEING" your actions does. — Henry Johnson Jr

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things. — Dianna Hardy

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions. — Auliq Ice

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life. — Hans Jonas

You Cannot judge the entire Human race by the actions of a Few — Molly Evangeline

Every human must take responsibility for his actions. — Jalal Talabani

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