Human Nature

"You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run."

"The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being."

"It is, of course, merely a truism to say that war, like other social or political evils, is the outcome of the bad management of human society, which is, in its turn, due to certain errors or deficien…"

"He had the notion that because I am a clergyman I should believe anything. Many people have little notions of that kind."

"No poet in England has ever been in the masses what Tulsidas has been to the people of this land."

"History has a way of reducing individuals to flat, two-dimensional portraits. it is the enemy of subjectivity, which is why Stephen Dedalus called it "a nightmare from which I am trying to awake". If …"

"How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!"

"It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that."

"The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over. The mythmakers knew that. They weren't dummies, man. … They were the ones who invented rhyme and meter—the programming language fo…"

"Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing."

"It’s a very, very low risk to the United States, but it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously... It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be …"

"A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."

"In this time, when the games and abuses of secret societies were without end, I wanted to make use of this human weakness for a real and worthy goal, the welfare of mankind.… I wanted what the heads o…"

"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."

"He was never just a musician, from very early on he wanted to do other things, to make his music work for humanity"

"Gentile maintained, with Marx, that the ‘essence’ of man is not individual—but social. The human person is a function of a complex pattern of interactions with both nature and other persons in a law-a…"

"You cannot build a product that appeals to a diverse set of people without having a diverse set of people designing the product."

"On 2011 Norway attacks Since the massacre was consumed in 30 minutes, however, one cannot help but wonder why the murderer was not at all opposed by the group of people he was slaughtering. Let's reas…"

"An isolated human in a simple society is usually a dead human..."

"We cling in our public life to a brutal hypocrisy. In our century of almost universal violence of humans against fellow humans, and against our natural and cultural commonwealth, hypocrisy has been in…"