
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 369
2nd Seminar Meeting, Brockwood Park, UK (14 September 1979)
1970s
“Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 369
Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)
“Political Correctness is Cultural Marxism in action.”
"The Curse Of Cultural Marxism" (7 July 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trAyp5XXQgo#t=5m25s
2018
Source: Social Problems (1883), Ch. 21 : Conclusion
Context: I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.
Whoever, laying aside prejudice and self-interest, will honestly and carefully make up his own mind as to the causes and the cure of the social evils that are so apparent, does, in that, the most important thing in his power toward their removal. This primary obligation devolves upon us individually, as citizens and as men. Whatever else we may be able to do, this must come first. For "if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch."
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
Chris Argyris (1982) as cited in: "Chris Argyris: The Manager's Academic" in Business (2003). p. 965
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
Speech at the dinner of the Pilgrim Society (21 December 1855), published in Speeches, Letters and Lectures by Wendell Phillips https://archive.org/details/speecheslectures7056phil (1884), p. 229
1850s
Excerpts from an address to the Commonwealth Workshop in Nadi, 29 August 2005
"Thanks, POTUS, For Breaking-Up The Annual Correspondents’ Circle Jerk." http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/08/thanks-potus-for-breaking-up-the-annual-correspondents-circle-jerk/ The Daily Caller, May 8, 2017
2010s, 2017
“The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.”
Husayn al-Nuri al-Tabarsi, Mustadrak al-Wasā'il, vol. 11, p. 324