Human Nature

"People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings."

"And this is something that I emphasize wherever I go -- democracy does not stop on Election Day. For a real democracy to work, and for a society to thrive and continually improve, it requires that peo…"

": All objectives meet in the endlessly continued approach to and progress towards the ideal “summum bonum”, though this, the most valuable humanistic good of a full human society, may perhaps never be…"

"You have to temper your emotions and try to stay stable. And also try top stay on your routine. It showed me how fleeting opinions are. And how opinions and people’s choices and I guess criticisms are…"

"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."

"All I know is, whether they're interdimensional demons, whatever they are-... Let's just say that's an allegory, all I know is it's the same thing. Psychopaths operate, they're not human, I don't like…"

"The foundations of the universal value of art are given to us now by psychology. This is the common base that enables us to sink its roots to the origins before man and to discover the primary myths o…"

"It is not good when people no longer believe in war. Pretty soon they no longer believe in many other things which they absolutely must believe in if they are to be decent men."

"The 400 of us pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you're in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of hum…"

"events are tough for non-sycophants such as myself. I don't take everything Apple says at face value, as they would prefer. And I certainly don't buy into the theory that the world's most profitable c…"

"The divine in Jesus does not denote a violent rupture of the course of human history with the exclusion of all causal connection and all human personality, but it lies at the basis of all this history…"

"Even the most superficial of a newspaper reveals an important aspect of human psychology: our preoccupation with the short term."

"Historic Personalities - Cyrus the Great Iran Chamber Society"

"Rabbit feels as if the human race is a vast colourful jostling bristling parade in which he is limping and falling behind."

"When I leave Somalia I will leave buildings but not people."

"Plainly he was one of those rare people who burn with an inner fire—but the inner fire that never failed in James Arm-of-the-Lord was a brand of woe and a torch of terror to the Unrighteous. Nor was i…"

"His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society -- more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. T…"

"The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing…"

"I must warn you that Gurdjieff is far more of an enigma than you can imagine. I am certain that he is deeply good, and that he is working for the good of mankind. But his methods are often incomprehen…"

"Rationality is not one of humanity’s strong points."