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
“If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Is it not indeed, possible that, while a high order of genius is necessarily ambitious, the highest is above that which is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“For as soon as Christ says: 'This is my body,' his body is present through the Word and the power of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world,… — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how… — D.J. Molles Copy Share Image
Why would so many risk their reputations, families, careers—even presidential legacies—for something that runs against human nature? Were monogamy an ancient, evolved… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
“If you could have confidence in nature you would not have to fear. It would keep you up. Creative is nature. Rapid.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The Christian message does not begin with "accept Christ as your Savior"; it begins with "In the beginning God created the heavens… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Ten minutes ago, Frank though he was going to prison. Now he knows he’s not, and part of him thinks he should… — Ryan David Jahn Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the crime itself. Murder by legal process is immeasurably more dreadful than… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“If men were to colonize the moon or Mars—even with abundant supplies of oxygen, water, and food, as well as adequate protection… — Kurt Kaltreider Copy Share Image
Guys! While your'e BUSY ignoring your lady, another guy is TRYING really hard to get her attention. While your'e too busy for… — London Mond Copy Share Image
I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name.… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death,… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Human nature has been landscaped, replanted, weeded, fertilized, fenced off, seeded, and irrigated as intensively as any garden or seaside golf course.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
