Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Because it is human nature to believe the first story heard, and not its rebuttal.” — Katherine Longshore Copy Share Image
I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“But supposing God became a man - suppose our human nature which can suffer and die was amalgamated with God's nature in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“community ownership doesn’t work in large-scale societies where people operate in anonymity. In The Power of Scale, anthropologist John Bodley wrote: “The… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Nature goes on without you, human nature goes on within you ... cause every human being is lost one way or another. — Higher Grounds Copy Share Image
“Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance:… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Those who want to do harm, they'll do harm whether they have nukes at their disposal or bow and arrow.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“It speaks very well for human nature that with the masses of dear friends we have it’s only to-day that one of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil… — Arthur Byron Cover Copy Share Image
“The trouble with purging the school curriculum of religious knowledge is that ultimate questions cannot be answered without reference to religious beliefs… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“This preoccupation with the classics was the happiest thing that could have befallen me. It gave me a standard of values. To… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“That's the real mystery, isn't it? Not whether he was a common merchant or the queen's son, but how he could understand… — Elise Broach Copy Share Image
“Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?" Danny: "Human nature," he said.… — Judith Victoria Douglas Copy Share Image
You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring.… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Writers who have delved into human nature, ancient masters of strategy, historians of human stupidity and folly, kings and queens who have… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Dawn Of The Dead is about how we're just a country cannibalizing itself, turning into one shopping mall, and everyone at the… — Eli Roth 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
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Is it Rousseauian fantasy to assert that prehistory was not an unending nightmare? That human nature leans no more toward violence, selfishness,… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection,… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
“Remember Samson’s parents when they saw what they thought was God, exclaimed, “we shall surely die, for we have seen God”. Hebrews… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Even in the most structured, technological lives, our primal instincts are waiting to be reawakened.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
