It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The way my body works, people are always going to stare at me. It's just human nature. — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of… — Chris Hondros Copy Share Image
“In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil, but those whose own… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“. . . Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path . . . Utilitarians and others… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to… — Sean DeLauder Copy Share Image
“Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?” He laughed… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention.… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image