Human Nature

"Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play. Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect it…"

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wan…"

"The war on drugs has been a catastrophic failure... We criminalise thousands of people, blighting their careers ... When people buy cannabis from criminals, they have no idea what they are buying."

"The reason I don't worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I'll take those odds every fucking…"

"We celebrate the values which define modern Scotland: the values of humanity, compassion, enterprise, ambition, and a determined internationalism."

"Moses should have said "Let my people go. Please."

"Paul Fussell : From his bunker in Princeton, N.J., a wounded literary guerrilla shoots back at the 20th century" by D. Keith Mano, People Magazine"

"The Church never said that wrongs could not or should not be righted; or that commonwealths could not or should not be made happier; or that it was not worth while to help them in secular and material…"

"About the hides I will ask you. Those that are killed on the block. That ought to go to the poor people and the old women. The Great Father when we went down there said he would agree to take all our …"

"“Most people have a price. And they have a price because of human emotions named fear and greed."

"Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal the abuse of words."

"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing — by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obvi…"

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

"I am not judging them, but they are judging the House. Decrying the NJAC Act, it is a slap on the face of the people. It is a very sad event."

"One’s career might depend solely on one’s own efforts, but marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. Perhaps it w…"

"A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders."

"Ethical culture should do for human character what physical culture should do for the body. It should produce a race of kind, honest, courageous, public-spirited, and justice-loving men and women. It …"

"Patriotism is not baseness, neither is it inhumanity."

"The way in which our society does do honor to its indubitably great men … is a study in immunizing people against their virus. … They are the menagerie of Very Important People who exist only for cere…"

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."