Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Nowadays music just exploits the human nature, because people no longer see it as expressing their inner-most feelings but fuelling the listeners… — Juru Samuels Copy Share Image
“Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind is large and open, like… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts… — Aleksandra Layland Copy Share Image
“Make religion attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is. Worthy of reverence because it really… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“as Schulz himself has pointed out, Snoopy is capable of being 'one of the meanest' members of the entire Peanuts cast ...… — Robert L. Short Copy Share Image
“Ultimately...woman's equality is not derived from any theory of human nature but rather from concepts of justice, equality and the integrity of… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend,… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost. . . . Where I… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Amazement of something in front of your eyes, which is so strong that it makes you refuse to believe it. A refusal… — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson observed: “The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“People hate what they can’t understand, what is different from themselves. They hate it and they want to eradicate it. Violence and… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“This makes sense, since human nature is a constant. Trend following seeks to profit from this collective behavior of market participants, who… — Matthew R. Kratter Copy Share Image
Your natural tendency, human nature, is to always look and see if there's an opportunity. But that's something that I don't spend… — Monty Williams Copy Share Image
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown… — William James Copy Share Image
The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The one aim of [my] yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image