Favorite quotes

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations… is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

…and who give their
full and willing collaboration to this vast and complicated concert
which we call civilization.In principle the mind is capable of suppressing all the limits which it
discovers in itself, limits of language, nationality, religion, race, or
epoch. But it must be admitted that the more the mind spiritualizes and
generalizes itself, the less hold it has on other minds, which no longer
understand it or know what to do with it. Influence belongs to men of
action, and
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

The forms of dreamland are gigantic, those of action are small and
dwarfed. To the minds imprisoned in things, belong success, fame,
profit; a great deal no doubt; but they know nothing of the pleasures of
liberty or the joy of penetrating the infinite. However, I do not mean
to put one class before another; for every man is happy according to his
nature. History is made by combatants and specialists; only it is
perhaps not a bad thing that in the midst of the devouring activities…

Effective action is always unjust.