Human Nature

"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."

"People tend to underestimate him on first acquaintance. It’s a mistake they only make once. Whether or not they survive."

"Many people are losing themselves.They don't have something to believe in...We should believe in ourselves and be more self-confident."

"Mr. Peres, you are older than I am. And your voice is genuinely loud. I know that it is because you are, in fact, in a psychology of feeling guilty, thus you better know that I will not sound that lou…"

"Experience is also a product of chance and individual faculties... I detest greasy objectivity, and harmony, the science that finds everything in order. Carry on, my children, humanity... Science says…"

"Elizabeth. A killer. A sociopath. A human scorpion. And Cassidy had let her ride on her back."

"In other words, a majority of people let their lack of money stop them from making a deal."

"The civil state is humbly to be implored to provide in their high wisdom for the security of all the respective consciences, in their respective meetings, assemblings, worshipings, preachings, disputi…"

"I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops or baby-sitters to keep me from infringing on others. But I don't feel we have evolved far enough as a spec…"

"No continent is as small and fragmented as Europe. Only Australia is smaller, yet Europe consists of fifty independent nations . Crowded with nations, it is also crowded with people. Europe's populati…"

"One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans."

"Helnwein has always said that he paints children because they symbolize humanity better than adults. This may be so, but perhaps Helnwein's images are so profoundly disturbing because of the disparity…"

"Maharaj Ji: … really I can't say who I am. But, though, there is a very basic thing, what I feel about myself. And that is that people have been claiming me as God or as Jesus or so on, and ah, many t…"

"Religion lives not by the force and aid of dogma, but because it is ingrained in the nature of man. ...the moulds have been broken and reconstructed over and over again, but the molten ore abides in t…"

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

"It has never been done before, there is no evidence this will do anything by shutting these people in. There is still the virus there."

"People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish. But that's only if it's done properly."

"Th' Turkey bur-rd's th' rale cause iv Thanksgivin'. He's th' naytional air. Abolish th' Turkey an' ye desthroy th' tie that binds us as wan people."

"The war hung over us like a storm cloud. They told us how the animals escaped from the zoo after the bombing raid and rushed about the streets. They fled not from people, but to people, and, let's say…"

"One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way o…"