One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.
They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important - that they are important. You don't get punished for doing something unimportant, after all.
I don’t know much about psychoanalysis, but I don’t believe that we can blame our actions on our upbringings. If we could, then nobody would be responsible for anything they do.
I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
3. War Peace & Action - 3B.02 LOVE & PEACE Hatred goes not by hatred, Violence not by violence, Disappear hatred and violence, By love, understanding, non-violence. [241] - 3B
Bravery is not the trait of a fearless person, lest the reckless actions of a fool be considered brave. Bravery is the quality that allows us to overcome our fears and succeed.
Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.
The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to do so.
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.
If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.
About Anna Faktorovich's "Romances of George Sand": “What a read! Not lacking in action and very imaginative.
You may explore, you may evaluate but you can't execute if you are not willing to take action. Decide to take off now!
Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
❤Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action...we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!
Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.
Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.
Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity. [Trans. Purohit Swami]
