To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
“Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.” — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
Self-respect comes from acting in accordance with your fundamental nature. Let your individuality and uniqueness to shine. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature… I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man… It is… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no… — Xun Kuang Copy Share Image
“Rousseau.—Although this politician, the paramount authority of the Democrats, makes the social edifice rest upon the general will, no one has so… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
We have characteristics we're born with, that are molded by the lives we live. And so to have a psychologically engaged show,… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The hunger [to success] is the same, no matter what it is that you're doing. It's like an unquenchable thirst to learn… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
“[V]ictimism is an ideology of the ego. But perhaps ideology is too strong a term; victimism can be seen as a generalized… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image