Human Actions Quotes

• ... 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
  • Justice
  • Guided
  • Balances

• Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Diverse
  • Manifest
  • Human Actions

• 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 Dostoevsky
  • Forget
  • Explanations
  • Human Actions

• Man rises up against nature by means of what we would today call culture.

  

  Eric Wolf
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Destruction

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Principle
  • Dread
  • Human Actions

• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Honor
  • Patience
  • Measure

• A “conditioning” model, which is at root based on the assumption of mindless, subconscious determinism, is completely hopeless for understanding even something as basic as shopping—not to mention human action in general.

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Hopeless
  • Conditioning
  • Determinism