Inspirational Quotes

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Human Agency Quotes

EconomicsHuman AgencyHuman ImpactJustice But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President
HistoryHuman ActionHuman AgencyLifeReality History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Karl Marx

Philosopher and Economist
Dominion Over MatterFreedomHuman AgencyMastery Over Circumstances Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
ActivityEndsHistoryHuman AgencyPurpose It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Karl Marx

Philosopher and Economist