It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
There is no such passion in human nature, as the passion for gravy among commercial gentlemen. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I can imagine no greater catastrophe than if I were mistaken, and the theory were correct that what I consider secondary instincts… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves.… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
“There is no nature that exists devoid of nurture; there is no nurture that develops without nature. To say otherwise is like… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Good morning family! Sense gratification sprouts from the Ego within, as a deflated human nature. And when this ego is crashed it… — Rita A. Barnes Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of Unitarianism and Universalism, these traditions have advocated for the compatibility of science and religion. Both traditions encourage… — Mark W. Harris Copy Share Image
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Clearly, the Fall was not just an isolated act of disobedience that could be quickly mended. Every part of God's good handiwork… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up,… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Men readily listen" to Utopias, "and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system.” “Of course there is. Doesn’t that fit human nature?” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all… — Samuel B. Pettengill Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better;… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Many people continue to say they are staunchly opposed to homosexuality; they reject and repudiate it, saying that it goes against human… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“We are neither just brains floating around nor just hearts bouncing about.” — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
“They imagine how grand it used to be, their memories enhanced by a decade of stories—it is human nature to believe that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image