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... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice. — Charles Lamb
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The… — Thomas Carlyle
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be… — Charles Spurgeon
Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. — Phyllis Schlafly
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. — David Hackworth
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. — Edith Hamilton
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. — Arthur Miller
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the… — Oswald Chambers
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating… — William O. Douglas
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;… — Samuel Johnson
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a… — Frederic Bastiat
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… — Thomas Sowell
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people… — Thomas Jefferson
Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. — Benjamin Franklin

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