Human Nature

"People are fed up with politicians who don't listen to them. Fed up with a corrupt system that benefits the elites instead of working men and women."

"People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked."

"We hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies hire people to tell them what to do. We hire people to tell us what to do. We figure we're paying them all this …"

"Issues about violating people’s privacy don’t seem to be surmountable, I’m not willing to risk insulting anyone."

"Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force yo…"

"I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn’t defeat the British, it didn’t get us to the moon, build our nation’s highways, or map the huma…"

"I’m really interested in reality TV as a format for storytelling, as a way of communicating humanity, of seeing ourselves, of seeing our scripted selves perform as ourselves. It’s simulacral, this rem…"

"Jackie DeShannon Appreciation Society"

"When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings …"

"Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the document that articulated the principle of human rights endowed by the Creator, thereby ultimately ensuring the end of slavery, and led to t…"

"It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in …"

"KING: And the Palestinian people are the only people without a state..."

"All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures - the correlation of normally unconnected happenings which jolts humanity out of its existing rut and sets it on a new course."

"Parliament has not got the right to hijack the Brexit process because Parliament has said to the people of this country: 'We make a contract with you, you will make the decision and we will honour it.…"

"When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though the war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we…"

"There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge."

"You have to put out the image you want people to have of you, I keep my opinions to myself. I’m neutral—like Switzerland."

"The thing I've seen about people on the computer and the Internet is that it's addicting. We told him not to get on it, and you turn around and he's on the computer."

"continue to work to deliver on the solemn promise to the people of this country to deliver on the result of the referendum and leave the European Union"

"How do we form ourselves into an activity—a force to improve the situation? I don't have the answers. I'm an academic— the most useless people in the world."