Human Nature

"In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including th…"

"Ingels: "People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard."

"Witches, ghouls, possessed animals, even nebulous mountain-dwelling ogres, are neither discrete species of the otherwordly nor even are they firmly separable from humanity. They are, in a sense, all or…"

"A Conversation with Judge Robert H. Bork - Event Video, Federalist Society, 2007-06-26"

"There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people."

"Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?"

"I've always felt like something of an outsider. I've always had friends, but I've always come from an outside point of view. I think that's important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that's agno…"

"There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations."

"PDF: "Dame Vera Lynn: Voice of a Generation" by Erin Hackel, Kapralova Society Journal, Vol. 11 Issue 2 , p. 1-6"

"There are people who would be able to do the same if they’d been given the same privileges as me. I think of how, in our society, so many of us like to consider ourselves the heroes of our own stories…"

"The cost-benefit approach treats people as of equal worth because it treats them as of no worth, but only as places or channels at which willingness to pay is found."

"The will of 1.3 billion Chinese people cannot be infringed upon."

"We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment."

"We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality--higher than society in its hypocritical meshes."

"Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum."

"The political entity presupposes the real existence of an enemy and therefore coexistence with another political entity. As long as a state exists, there will thus always be in the world more than jus…"

"I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!"

"In every wise struggle for human betterment one of the main objects, and often the only object, has been to achieve in large measure equality of opportunity. In the struggle for this great end, nation…"

"People are so lazy, they want everything to be simple, but nothing is simple. Nothing."

"Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made."