#philosophy
"We have a real choice: either we choose to shape events or we will be shaped by them. Over many centuries, the people of the United Kingdom have got into the habit of being actors in this world, rather than being acted upon by it."
React to this quote
More by Tom Tugendhat
See allResonant Thoughts
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic."
— W. Somerset Maugham"I am a Communist because I am convinced that the reason we have been forcefully compelled to eke out an exi…"
— Angela Davis"Feyerabend's Dadaesque rhetoric concealed a deadly serious point: the human compulsion to find absolute tru…"
— John Horgan (journalist)"You Westerners simply don't understand the philosophy behind my power. The Iranians think of their sovereig…"
— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi"Contemplation does not mean abject surrender to every "mystical" impression that comes in. It is no sentime…"
— Evelyn Underhill"How did a man with such good intentions cause such an outpouring of blood and horror? The answer lies in He…"
— Lauren Johnson (author)