Human Nature

"He is not a Pope, he is a theologian. I do not like him. He has no humanity. It has pissed off the whole Islamic world."

"I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing. CBS TV 1976"

"I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them."

"A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community."

"People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists."

"All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing."

"It's unbelievable. People are so desperate to get home. The trains come very regularly, you see them, one minute, two minutes, three minutes... this means nothing to people. As soon as you get on the …"

"There is not a single criterion which can serve as the measure of the non-existent, of the non-human."

"A democratic and equitable international order is inherent in the fundamental human rights that humanity shares. It is achievable, step-by-step, when every country and people act at the local, regiona…"

"Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good so…"

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things."

"Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the h…"

"There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear."

"I don't celebrate Halloween because of what it means. Because it is a Satanic holiday, it is a pagan holiday, and while people are going around getting free candy, people are falling victims to human …"

"I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious."

"A war crimes complaint has been filed against President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump adviser Jared Kushner in the International Criminal Court .... The complaint, …"

"She is enigmatic... because she is hard to get She only moves in a small circle of senior film people and she shuns the media. That's also because she is a tragic figure with failed relationships... n…"

"Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Slavery was one of them and the people who best served that age were the ones who called it as it was — which…"

"Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor."

"He advanced toward me without moving his hat, or making the least inclination of his body; but there appeared more real politeness in the open, humane air of his countenance, than in drawing one leg b…"