#actions

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws. ↗

— Eric Holder

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Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#based #believe #challenge #choices #decisions

The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #human #human heart #infinitely #mechanical

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#constant #custom #design #first #into

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#loudest #their #those #threats #weakest

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

#contradict #may #must #never #speak

Factions are a sign of illness in a party. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#illness #party #sign

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

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