Human Nature

"This country stands out like a sore thumb trying to impose its European values in Asia as if the good old days when people can shoot aborigines without caring about human rights."

"You will see things that other people never see."

"The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is ‘metaphysical’ and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribe…"

"The Noël Coward Society"

"In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to m…"

"Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the ma…"

"Such parliamentary bagpipes I myself have heard play tunes, much to the satisfaction of the people."

"Under communism , there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety."

"It's hard to watch and it should be hard to watch. It should frighten people, and if it's done that, it's done its job."

"I feel a conscious attempt to be more and more related to society. That's what's important to me as a person. I'm not going to let other people make all the changes; and if you do that, you can't curt…"

"That the German people were spared this final catastrophe was due to -- aside from the rapid advances of the Allied troops, which made the carrying out of such a gigantic demolition impossible -- the …"

"The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet."

"People always like to hear that they’re under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they’d feel if they were told they weren’t under stress."

"Imperialist powers are blinded by tradition, prestige and self-interest, and vainly imagine that it is for the good of humanity that they should perpetuate their rule and continue to bear "the white m…"

"The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, …"

"Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of lif…"

"The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts."

"Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do w…"

"A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility…"

"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in both browse and search modes at the Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity"