A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Obstructiveness is a practice committed out of jealousy, ego, or revenge amongst humans from time immemorial. — Chandlrababu VS Copy Share Image
“Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain… — Sabina Magliocco Copy Share Image
“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that… — Marvin Olasky 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
Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“For as soon as Christ says: 'This is my body,' his body is present through the Word and the power of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners. — James Cook Copy Share Image
“The knowledge both of the Poet and the Man of science is pleasure; but the knowledge of the one cleaves to us… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Human nature tends to turn negative in difficult times. But the Scripture tells us to do just the opposite: “Count it all… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting,… — John Holt Copy Share Image
“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament- it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We scarcely dare to trust the truth of history, in some of its traits of human nature,” said Ellena.” — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
My opinion is that we must lend ourselves to others and give ourselves only to ourselves. If my will happened to be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years scientists from very diverse disciplines - anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, psychologists - have all moved to a much… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones... I think it's human nature,… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image