| "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant |
| "Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc." »Albert Einstein |
| "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas |
| ""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer |
| "His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." »Michael Hanson |
| "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." »Joel Barker |
| "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." »Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin |
| "Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action." »Midge Dector |
| "The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly." »Lu Yen |
| "We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." »Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun |
| "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." »William J. Broad |
| "Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains." »Helen Gahagan Douglas |
| "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." »W. H. Auden |
| "Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the Headless Monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded." »Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin |
| "A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." »Denis Diderot |
| "The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people." »Claiborne Pell |
| "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." »Eric Hoffer |
| "One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical." »Eugenio Montale |
| "Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." »Allen Ginsberg |
| "A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy." »Camille Paglia |
| "Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare." »Japanese Proverb |
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