Human Nature

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention."

"The admirers and followers of the Alcoran insist on the excellent moral precepts interspersed through that wild and absurd performance. But it is to be supposed, that the Arabic words, which correspon…"

"The Germans are really a stupid people. They always do the wrong thing. They always did the wrong thing during the war. They don't understand human nature. This is the most tactless speech I have ever…"

"They continue to be the rage. The salon where they are is jammed with people."

"Almost all people descend to meet."

"We, in a spirit of humanity of which I entirely approve, have passed legislation—to which I may say I have without boasting myself contributed very largely—to raise the standard of living amongst our …"

"The people you step over when you come out of the opera."

"If you fell the trees then you destroy human culture as well as the birds of paradise. People depend on the forest and the forest has always depended on us. We are as one."

"ere are three sentences for you to paste in your hat and learn by heart. First: Credit is the life blood of industry, and the control of credit is the control of all society. Second: The private contr…"

"The Lives of Animals", delivered for The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Princeton"

"We have had enough of white presidents. So, let's this time elect a president from the Negro race. What will you do if I say so? There's no question there. We must never forget that we are brothers an…"

"I don’t sit down with the scripts. As long as I like the people I’m working with that’s enough for me."

"Conquered people tend to be witty."

"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as i…"

"It was bad enough in 2013, and it's worse now. My approach to political theater is that the way to the mind is through the heart. If you can touch the heart, then people will come to the ideas themsel…"

"The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth."

"A lot of people can forget about you in Los Angeles."

"Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain."

"The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality.... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but eve…"