“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some… — John Keats Copy Share Image
My pessimism (which, by the way, is far from absolute) originated with my despair in the lack of perfection to be found… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“„Hitler“, wrote Herman Rauschning in 1939, „ has a deep respect for the Catholic church and the Jesuit order, not because of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
It's human nature to desire vengeance towards those who have done us wrong in the past, but if you do not forgive,… — Jayy Von Monroe Copy Share Image
“While Genesis borrows the science of its day, it does so in order to make its main points about Who created the… — Gabriel Fackre Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The success of Communism naturally depends on altering human nature because few things are more inherent in human nature than the ownership… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Whether or not LSD research and therapy will return to society, the discoveries that psychedelics made possible have revolutionary implications for our… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“You don’t remember it, but when you were a baby… someone protected and helped you, too. The strong protect the weak. Then… — Koyoharu Gotouge Copy Share Image
“And to hear David talk about it, it's it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature… — James Denney Copy Share Image
It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential,… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why,… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
