Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who… — Aristotle 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
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“In urbanisation, the suburbs are just as monocultural (as agriculture), with a lifestyle that maximises the excessive consumption of material goods in… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
-We criticize -We analyze -But do we ever -Turn to see -We are all different -Never made the same -Some laugh, some… — Shmoopy Copy Share Image
“Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition.… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
I am constantly pushing myself and my own expectations and have always found that I've always come out better for it. Fear… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I think that the desire to be cruel and to hurt (with words because any other way might be dangerous to ourself)… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“The ability to eavesdrop on people's communications vests immense power in those who do it. And unless such power is held in… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
We consider the Holocaust as being a sort of strange event taking place on another planet; we never understood in a visceral… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go… — H. Rider Haggard 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
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“[There's] one... thing I can tell you about human nature: beautiful people are the last ones you want to befriend. Beautiful people… — Amy Kathleen Ryan Copy Share Image
“Every adult life could be said to be defined by two great love stories. The first - the story of our quest… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
“St Isaac urges, God's taking of our humanity is to be understood not only as an act of restoration, not only as… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Doing what comes naturally was (and is) no longer the appropriate response in many circumstances that arose in what had become an… — Robert S. McElvaine Copy Share Image
“The idea that human beings cannot logically recognize suffering in a chicken, or draw meaningful conclusions about how a human would react… — Karen Davis Copy Share Image
“The foundation of government is . . . laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All man is Dog's according to some Woman, who got hurt by a Man or more than one Man. Ladies I have… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann 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
If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“Though many of my arguments will be coolly analytical — that an acknowledgment of human nature does not, logically speaking, imply the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image