Human Nature

"There will be a "Oops 100."  They'll be plenty more oopses.  I'm not perfect.  I'm human."

"Henry S. Salt Society"

"The People's War begins to sweep away the old order in order to inevitably destroy it . From the old, the new shall be born. And finally, like the pure glorious phoenix bird, Communism will arise for …"

"The human foot is commonly subjected to grotesque tortures that deform it and make it rickety. In an imbecilic way it is doomed to corns, calluses, and bunions."

"But Islam has a still further service to render to the cause of humanity. It stands after all nearer to the real East than Europe does, and it possesses a magnificent tradition of interracial understa…"

"John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them."

"To be morally upset about how other people take their sexual pleasure is surely the weirdest human quirk ever."

"A musician is like an ear for humanity, just as a painter is like an eye for humanity. The sounds somehow exist in a different sphere, the musician listens, and brings them out for the world. There's …"

"Society … can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens."

"It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in fields for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it. In psychology, at least in the psychology …"

"Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'"

"Here we could use the distinction elaborated by Kovel's White Racism - between dominative and aversive racism. In Nazi ideology, all human races form a hierarchical, harmonious, whole a all races exce…"

"The body will perish whether we work or sit idle. So, instead of rusting away without doing anything for society, it is better to wear oneself out in the pursuit of good actions."

"We brought in an innovative group of young digital humanists led by Adrianne Wadewitz."

"For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great ap…"

"I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots."

"Civil society organisations make a major contribution to human development, particularly when democracies are failing, or have failed; for it is then that the institutions of civil society can, and of…"

"The Bernard Shaw Society, New York"

"We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe."

"One of my mottoes as a writer is a little jotting from Kafka's journals: ‘Never again psychology!’ But alas, humankind is obsessed with its psychological workings, and since the novel can only treat o…"