Human Nature

"The human journey is, at its core, about the extension of empathy to broader and more inclusive domains. At first, the empathy extended only to kin and tribe. Eventually it was extended to people of l…"

"Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region."

"In a free society, the ‘vision thing’ is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a ‘visionary’ bureaucrat is a voracious one and that…"

"If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in a…"

"What would the Israelis do if they could do what they want? They would live in peace with their neighbors, if they had neighbors who would live in peace with them. They would simply continue to build …"

"The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity."

"I don't pay any attention. The stunt people take care of all that. All I do is get in and out of the Coyote , which is no mean trick. You can't get into the S.O.B. without bending yourself into a pret…"

"Once you give people the idea that all this can be done by the State, and that it is somehow second-best or even degrading to leave it to private people...then you will begin to deprive human beings o…"

"Similarly, some people have argued that the harms suffered by animals in the wild should not concern us because they are natural. This sounds like a speciesist claim, given that such a view is rarely …"

"Ten thousand people a day die of starvation, according to a United Nations survey. Thousands more die from disease daily: we have earth-quakes, floods. droughts and pestilence. These are only a few of…"

"The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. This is not about Russian ads. This …"

"The hunger for peace is too great, the hour in history too late, for any government to mock men's hopes with mere words and promises and gestures. There is, before all peoples, a precarious chance to …"

"Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human."

"I would like to offer for the unity of our people, the adoption of multiracialism as the core ideal in searching for a clear way ahead. We need to get out of our comfort zones, our ethnic boxes and tr…"

"Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence. If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at th…"

"We probably had a one percent chance at succeeding because most people who attempt to do this fail, but if you’re not afraid to fail let’s go for it."

"What is God-given is what we call human nature. To fulfil the law of our human nature is what we call the moral law. The cultivation of the moral law is what we call culture."

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

"Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."

"During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the …"