You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The ideals and objectives of yesterday was still ideals of today, but they lost some of their luster and even, as one… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The dread of a permanently wicked human nature takes two forms. One is a practical fear: that social reform is a waste… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“People can. And do. And do it all the time. Fallibility is a close friend of mine.” — J.M. Lawler Copy Share Image
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's human nature. First of all he likes to do work Which should be forbidden to work. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably… — Daniel Odier Copy Share Image
Of course, it's human nature for people, when they meet me to have some preconceptions about how I look, how I sing,… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“Imagine you are very good at a particular game. Pick anything—chess, Street Fighter, poker—doesn’t matter. You play this game with friends all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quickly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov Copy Share Image
“Can this be in human nature! — Can such horrible perversion of right be permitted! Can man, who calls himself endowed with… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Tessa fought down an impulse to snap. Colin had a habit of making sweeping judgements based on first impressions, on single actions.… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Incarnation' does not originally mean (as it tends to today in some theologies of history, and in some kinds of Anglican today)… — John Howard Yoder Copy Share Image
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“But what else could we do but hope? that, after all, is human nature.” — Thomas Buergenthal Copy Share Image
The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of human nature to always want to see these things as a competitive dynamic, that either technology companies… — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image