Human Nature

"This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass…"

"The American people need to know that we're facing a different enemy than we have ever faced. This enemy hides in shadows, and has no regard for human life. This is an enemy who preys on innocent and …"

"I had said, Mr. Yahya Khan, you are the President of this country. Come to Dhaka, come and see how our poor Bengali people have been mown down by your bullets, how the laps of our mothers and sisters …"

"In short, the early receivers of the new money in this market chain of events gain at the expense of those who receive the money toward the end of the chain, and still worse losers are the people who …"

"Mass non-violent protest is predicated on the humanity of the oppressor. Quite often it doesn't work. Sometimes it does, in unexpected ways. But judgements about that would have to be based on intimat…"

"As opposed to the agenda from people like you to boost Sarah Palin, who is clearly unqualified."

"Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development... The general policy of the past has been to drive, but the era of force must give way to …"

"“I don’t want to be prettier than the woman I’m walking with. I want people to look at me and say, ‘Now there’s a guy that can go under a car and fix the transmission, and ride a horse, and take out a…"

".. witnessed the martyrdom and the inhumane repression inflicted on our people."

"People tend to take pride in who they are. And that's a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you're proud of who you are, you won't let that go when it's necess…"

"Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to people."

"Kids listen to kids. If you have a platform, why not use it to speak about things that can help other people?"

"Rich people always smell good."

"In the name of the dogma of struggle for existence and natural selection, they paint for us in the saddest colors this primitive humanity whose hunger and thirst, always badly satisfied, were their on…"

"Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately."

"As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can."

"I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes."

"If you have been to college, so much the worse for you. You'll have to unlearn all you learned before you can get right down to human nature, and unlearnin’ takes a lot of time. Some men can never for…"

"In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you."

"t is very hard to achieve good objectives through bad means. And the means we have been using are bad in two very different respects. In the first place, all of these programs involve some people spen…"