Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.
Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
All men of action are dreamers.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
… in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.
Born was a refugee who escaped to England from Nazi Germany.
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!