The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is… — Christopher Gadsden Copy Share Image
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
[John] Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods and walking… — J.P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
“Jesse Livermore, who declared in How to Trade in Stocks, “I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are… — Gil Morales Copy Share Image
“It seems that human nature is very prone to believe what it wants to believe, rather than to incur the labor of… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Sometimes we all need a pat on our shoulder, from a friendly voice saying good job. We are only humans, we are… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
“I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
“There is nothing natural about human nature, which is in reality affected by the historical context in which man operates. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love… — Alyssa Day Copy Share Image
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
“Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
![“It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we can be sharing a pint. We continually devolve into conflict, no matter how much we evolve.” quote by Brad Pitt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/27c/brad-pitt-1608_chopping_it-is-an-amazing-fact-of-human-nature-th_2365846.jpg)
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![“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will find this nature and these needs set forth as nowhere else by the great imaginative writers, whether of prose or of poetry.” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a8/theodore-roosevelt-218_books_we-all-need-more-than-anything-else-to-k_257617.jpg)
