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Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.

- Gita, Bhagavad

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.

- Hughes, Charles E.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

- Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

- Lowell, James Russell

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

- Mill, John Stuart

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority.

- Pike, Albert

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

- Pike, Albert

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

- Richter, Jean Paul

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis