Human Nature

"Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being who ever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg... …"

"May we all come to realize that education and the humanities should be valued for nurturing our minds and society as a whole, and not only as a means to build future careers."

"It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land."

"I come to the ministry on my own because I feel total confidence in the people of this ministry and have no need to bring staff."

"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."

"A Society of Citizens, as well as every Thing else, requires a certain fixed Order: There ought to be some to govern, and others to obey. And this is the Origin of every Kind of Subjection; which feel…"

"It makes no difference to us what your religion is because we believe that as humanity we are all one. Thus, no matter what a person's belief we should love and respect each other."

"The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people."

"Violated, dishonored, wading in blood, dripping filth – there stands bourgeois society. This is it . Not all spic and span and moral, with pretense to culture, philosophy, ethics, order, peace, and th…"

"An Indian with a measure of European blood, she returned to India to shed her acquired skin....She saw her country with new vision and has left a legacy of pictures simple and grand...as a tribute to …"

"We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity."

"Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society."

"To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity."

"The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, re…"

"Recently in our country, there has been a steadily increasing number of people who dislike work and pursue leisure and extravagance. Almost everywhere individuals and organizations are fighting with r…"

"The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I …"

"Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten."

"I believe it is my job to tell people about what the good points of either company are. I'm not lying in either case."

"The role of urban areas within the climate system is yet another human climate effect whose role was minimized in the 2007 IPCC WG1 Report."

"The case for originalism is quite different. It is that in our system of government, written laws are supposed to provide stable rules around which society can organize itself. Such rules are presumed…"