Human Nature

"We do not want a war merely for the purpose of bringing to Germany people who simply do not want to be, or cannot be, Germans."

"Only human, after all."

"People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it."

"Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind."

"The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monst…"

"The Spirit of Rotary is to voluntarily improve the lot of their fellow human beings because it is the ultimate calling in life. Not for reward of for personal gain, but for the satisfaction of having …"

"Steve Bray: "If people feel exploited by Madonna - that's resentment of someone who's got drive. It seems like you're leaving people behind or you're stepping on them, and the fact is you're moving an…"

"Jorma Kariluoto had paid his dues into the common pot of human idiocy."

"Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives …"

"The Koran says: "You shall find the bitterest of people in enmity against the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists."

"On humanitarian grounds, it is India’s moral duty to accommodate such people who have no place to go. I want to ask those who talk of minority rights, is it not our moral duty to provide a helping han…"

"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."

"The emergence of this high-tech scientific medicine may be a prime example of what William Blake denounced as 'single vision', the kind of myopia which comes from looking doggedly down a microscope. S…"

"What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan?"

"India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century."

"In the refugee crisis there is the humanitarian aspect and the security aspect. In terms of humanity, Germany acted very well. But in terms of security, your country has completely failed. But no one …"

"Not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard."

"… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious terms, this is the Feuerbachian thesis that God is just a…"

"Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period.. .If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created…"

"To be a star is~to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."