Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, I am not a liberal. The notion that man is a rational creature who arrives at reasonable solutions… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“When we were first born, Spirit was our predominate guide, but as we ‘matured,’ our society quickly cured us of that. I… — Doug Burnett Copy Share Image
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe human beings are programmed to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Sir James Frazer speculated that the original oral myth about the Garden of Eden was not about a Tree of Knowledge and… — Howard Schwartz Copy Share Image
Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it… — GE Paulus Copy Share Image
“The imported discovery, that human nature is too good to be made better by discipline, that children are enticed from the right… — Lyman Beecher Copy Share Image
The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically — Karl Menninger Dr Copy Share Image
“It’s human nature to be weird, but also human to be lonely. This conflict between fitting in and standing out is at… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“In choosing to be a Psychology major, I decided to learn for the joy of learning for the first time in my… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life,… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The liberty, the unalienable, indefeasible rights of men, the honor and dignity of human nature, the grandeur and glory of the public,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ is a Man come to save men. In Him the divine nature is married to our human nature, and wherever… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Always stay in a company of a people who are loyal and trustworthy. People, who listen to what you tell them, are… — Ashok Kushwaha Copy Share Image
“People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range I used to care, but things have… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of… — Friedrich von Schiller Copy Share Image
Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image