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Human Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And…
- English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
- There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz