“Think, Penelope, Fulcanelli blurted out. We don't have time for this. You see, humans are the weakest of all the animals because… — Sarah C. Patten Copy Share Image
I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yunus, now a famous Nobel Prize winner, was invited to meet with the CEO of Adidas, who wanted to understand the concept… — Eric H.F. Law Copy Share Image
“Eve's Fall symbolizes women's invention of agriculture, which came to be seen as the Original Sin that caused the loss of Paradise.… — Robert S. McElvaine Copy Share Image
“I was learning an important and fascinating lesson about business and human nature: Failure terrifies people. They’ll do whatever they have to… — Scott Fearon Copy Share Image
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When men cannot communicate their thoughts to each other, simply because of difference of language, all the similarity of their common human… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Hostility is born from different ideologies, it is impossible to keep on hating something that has neither a will nor an ideology.… — Bleach Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Sometimes in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.As you become successful,you will need a… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the… — Faith Tilley Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter… — josh lanyon Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
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