“People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again. — Horace Copy Share Image
“If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they’d all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another’s… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.” — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“If you say something once, it means. If you say the same thing thrice, it becomes an obligation.” — Shayana Kaushal Copy Share Image
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do?… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
One can argue that true death only happens when the last bit of influence of yourself leaves this world and no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
“will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can’t. We must, therefore, go on. That’s is our only hope. Horror… — James De Mille Copy Share Image
“Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“So I learned then, that gold in it's native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz 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
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there’s always a wound, or fear, or… — Glenn Meade Copy Share Image
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman.… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
“262The Gospel is so rich, and the salvation purchased by Christ contains so many and diverse benefits, that the most varied needs… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers… — Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis Copy Share Image
It is just human nature for managers/leaders to have favorites in mind. It is normal. It just becomes too wrong though when… — Myron Sta Ana Copy Share Image
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that… — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet,… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It’s the behavioral pattern with many, in that having committed an indiscretion in the first place; they tend to assume an aggressive… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
