It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Effective action is always unjust.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
I'm such a horror geek, comic geek and action figure geek. I'm inspired by so much - from Hunter S. Thompson and Quentin Tarantino to 'The Dark Knight' and 'Halloween'. Just show me something that doesn't suck, and I'm happy.
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
I never thought, as a kid, that I'd have an action figure, much less an action figure sold in a two-pack with Jake The Snake.
I remember seeing an action figure of The Rock and going, 'You know what? I'm going to become a WWE Superstar.'
I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.
I got an action figure. You know, like G.I. Joe. What I seen of it, they got to put a little gray in the hair.
