Act

Famous quotes containing the word act:

“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.”
—Kwame Nkrumah (1900–1972)

“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)