Human Action Quotes

“It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.”
― Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon

“The essential quality of a market system, contrary to popular thinking, is not that it promotes greed; but rather, that it renders greed harmless.”
― Israel M. Kirzner

“Since the end of human action, as distinct from the end products of fabrication, can never be reliably predicted, the means used to achieve political goals are more often than not of greater relevance to the future world than the intended goals.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Ideology follows the money."

"Governments don't protect people, people protect governments."

"To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war.”
― Lawrence Samuels

“But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.”
― Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

“The urge toward action, i.e., improvement of the conditions of life, is inborn in man. Man himself changes from moment to moment and his valuations, volitions, and acts change with him. In the realm of action there is nothing perpetual but change.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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

“The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.”
― Herbert Blumer

“Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God’s instrument. Human action is God’s will, not blind indifference in the face of suffering.”
― John Kramer

“Prayers and wishes are worthless my friend, if they are not accompanied by tangible human actions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“Action is life and non-action is death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Saint of The Sapiens

“Human dynamism cannot be manipulated or switched on like that of a machine. It cannot be engineered or programmed. Human beings are created, not constructed – that is why they love to create their own reality. Human action cannot be explained by the laws of thermodynamics or by that of molecular biology. The wellspring of human action comes from the human spirit. The dwelling space of this spirit is our being.”
― Debashis Chatterjee, The Other 99%: You Can Dare To Lead

“All told, the question of how bad things will get is not actually a test of the science; it is a bet on human activity. How much will we do to stall disaster and how quickly? Those are the only questions that matter.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“In a world where change is constant and uninterrupted, believing that the centralized planning of scientists, politicians and state bureaucrats is more efficient than the spontaneous order of human cooperation, in the search for solutions to disease, climate change and the end of poverty, is so intensely naive that even the purity of a child will seem wiser.”
― Prof. Vinícius Montgomery de Miranda