Bare Action

Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or action:

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)