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This particular May morning begins with the appearance of a procession on the corner of Pancake and Rosa Luxemburg Streets. The procession is evidently religious: it consists of eight clerical personages, well known to the entire town. But instead of censers, the clerical personages are swinging brooms, which transfers the entire action from the plane of religion to the plane of revolution. These personages are now simply unproductive elements of society performing their labor duty for the... Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jules Verne quote: "He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to..."
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. Jules Verne
But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path. Jodi Picoult
And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new. Hannah Arendt
Abdul Kalam quote: "Dream, Dream DreamDreams transform into thoughts And thoughts..."
Dream, Dream DreamDreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action. Abdul Kalam
And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely,... David O. McKay
What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? Anne Lamott
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short. We wear the cape of civilisation. But our souls live in the stone age Nizar Qabbani
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm. Bertrand Russell
Victor Hugo quote: "Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven."
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven. Victor Hugo
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life. Henri Bergson
He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must ne found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts. Henry James
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action. Leo Tolstoy
My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn."She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."-Ranger and Stephanie Janet Evanovich
Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on I understood that chasing after the future is the worst conformism of all, a craven flattery of the mighty. For the future is always mightier than the present. It will pass judgement on us, of course. And without any competence. Milan Kundera

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