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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to… — Charles Darwin
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. — Abraham Maslow
Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its… — James Jeans
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people. — Dian Fossey
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple… — Friedrich Engels
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity.… — Emile Durkheim
Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The… — Emile Durkheim
The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things. — Emile Durkheim
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience… — Niels Bohr
[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines. — Charles Lindbergh
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. — Alexander Hamilton
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... — Alexander Hamilton
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind… — Alexander Hamilton
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. — Alexander Hamilton
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness… — Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. — Alexander Hamilton
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions. — Alexander Hamilton
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton
Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than… — Alexander Hamilton
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon. — Alexander Hamilton
A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of… — Alexander Hamilton

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