Human Nature

"Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out o…"

"The gun industry offloads tremendous costs onto people who don't use its products, like a polluter dumping on a city, so it's good to force people to realize what these costs are."

"In the beginning I felt like I wasn’t represented on stage or on film. As Latinos, we have been told in every which way that we don’t matter, that we are invisible — especially people who are indigeno…"

"I would like to see a character make his stand on what he things about it because that way I think I can get into the humanness of people, and that’s really where my head is."

"for humans, no matter what the warmth and duration of human contact and what the size of the group, a periodic sense of isolation is inescapable; it is no less than the human condition."

"I sent the club a wire stating, "PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER."

"The New Yorker magazine discussion on the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in which Mr. DeLillo discusses writing."

"Do I have to get naked people for you to remember my name? It's Lynn from Snot."

"The information age has off-loaded a great deal of work previously done by people we could call information specialists onto all of the rest of us."

"Governors will never be awed by the voice of the people, so long as it is a mere voice, without overt-acts."

"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry…"

"...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience to the lower or to the upper . They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, materia…"

"I am not on trial here, Mr. Chairman. This committee is on trial here before the American people. Let us get that straight."

"The crisis in the world is not economic, military, or political; essentially, it is a moral crisis. It is a reflection of man's growing inhumanity to man, which finds its most horrible expression in t…"

"Serving humanity and striving to alleviate the sufferings of other people goes hand in hand with our duties to worship God Almighty."

"A lot of people facing fascism didn’t become fascists. I don’t happen to believe that we are all monsters."

"Violence and terrorism has no place in any civilized society much less in India which is home of ahimsa. The perpetration of violent acts, especially on innocent victims, therefore, causes the greates…"

"On May 23, at the end of the last massive school strike, Thunberg and 46 other youth activists released an open letter to The Guardian urging adults to join in next time. Because, as they pointed out,…"

"The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not — will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers …"

"There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded."