“That cruelty is part of nature is the little lie. That cruelty is part of human nature is the big one.” — Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's human nature to want better and more in Life. You will never grow by settling and staying content... — Robert Samuel Copy Share Image
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.” — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I bite my tongue a lot. Being judgmental and having opinions is human nature but the way you go about handling your… — Ronald Oliver Copy Share Image
Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“universe.” Tan’elKoth’s tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. “Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
“It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the student as… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Hobbes took the madness of his age, considered it “normal,” and projected it back into prehistoric epochs of which he knew next… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe. By all that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against… — Sven-Goran Eriksson Copy Share Image
No man is born with the purpose to change the world for the better ... but also not to make it worse. — Ruediger Schaefer Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“People are like wildflowers—drain their souls, and nothing blooms. Nurture them, and they become a garden where the world gathers its sweetness.” — Angelika Regossi Copy Share Image
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame… — Orson Scott Card 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
