“The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always,… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Is it not indeed, possible that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The Christian message does not begin with "accept Christ as your Savior"; it begins with "In the beginning God created the heavens… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how… — D.J. Molles Copy Share Image
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Beyond the fact that it is a limitless arena for the full play of human nature, there is no sure accounting for… — Herbert Wind Copy Share Image
If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circumstance could change and… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Squid Game' is a story about human nature that most people can already relate to, yet everything is communicated through easy-to-follow childhood… — HoYeon Jung Copy Share Image
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we… — Dimitri Zaik Copy Share Image
“What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
“Remember my friend, uncontrolled alcohol, uncontrolled casual sex and mindless indoctrination are not signs of progress, they are signs of drowning into… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“There was nothing like working law enforcement for a few years to give you a jaded view of human nature. No matter… — josh lanyon Copy Share Image
