Human Actions Quotes

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

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

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

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.