Nature Of Man Quotes

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Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society.… — Unknown Author
The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Arise, transcend Thyself, Thou art man and the whole nature of man Is to become more than himself. — Sri Aurobindo
The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is… — Ernest Holmes
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of… — Charles Darwin
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
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according… — James Madison
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. — Fred Hoyle
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,… — Thomas Jefferson
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety… — Thomas Jefferson
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated… — James Madison
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly… — Allan McLeod Cormack
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind, the aggregate nature of man more continuously, and more deeply. But it does… — Walter Bagehot
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. — D.B.C. Pierre
Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature… — Franz Joseph Gall
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. — Edwin Forrest
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.… — C. Wright Mills

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