It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

— Albert Einstein

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

— John Henry Newman

Loving a country is an act of the imagination.

— Michael Ignatieff

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

— David Hume

Obedience is an act of faith disobedience is the result of unbelief.

— Edwin Louis Cole

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

— H. L. Mencken

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

— Alice Meynell

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan