The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up [and] the next we… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness,… — Felix Alba-Juez Copy Share Image
“Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are born with greed and malicious thoughts that's why these things are easy to understand. But not everybody has kindness, so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Maximus further concludes, the three laws exhibit the principal ends to which human nature is called: the natural law grants us… — John Behr Copy Share Image
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“You’re going to declare a rest period?’ asked Jerott. Leisure, with Gabriel there, seemed too good to be true. ‘Rumour being what… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human… — Brian Bowers Copy Share Image
BEHIND THIS MASK IV ALWAYS KNOWN WHO I AM IM NOT FRONTIN PLAYIN OR TELLIN LIES THE LORD BLESSED ME WITH NOTHING… — D Pryde Copy Share Image
“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
He [God] just seems so man-made to me. There are so many theories, and not everyone can be right. It's human nature… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Death is the privilege of human nature And life without it were not worth our taking Thither the poor, the unfortunate, and… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
“People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately.… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
“Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
We can't make excuses in sinning, saying that it's human nature because God has made us in His image. He made us… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“Friends and family argue and fight, but it means nothing. It's human nature. Love isn't perfectly patient or kind or sunny. Love… — Alyssa Day 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
“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Our mind has evolved in such a way that new wants keep appearing in it relentlessly. But do not confuse them with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“I believe there is no one principle which predominates in human nature so much in every stage of life, from the cradle… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior… — Ross W. Greene Copy Share Image
“She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book.… — James Vance Copy Share Image