Human Nature

"John Cale is a f*cking elitist. He did not like the people he was playing for. He's Welsh, and they're all nasty bastards."

"My invitation to these young people is only one: do not look at these negative examples—look at the saints, who in the Church are more numerous than these sinners, these traitors of their own mission,…"

"Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice v…"

"It is gonna get worse because of the stupidity that we're hearing coming out of people who say, "We need to build bridges, not walls." Wrong! You can't build a bridge to terror. You need to build a wa…"

"Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing."

"People at Rochester Institute Of Technology"

"I think that all art is political. I think that art is always an expression of a human experience, and I very much believe that the arts are central to our society…"

"There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power."

"People talking shit but when the shit hits the fan, everything I'm not made me everything I am."

"Koreans in both the north and the south tend to cherish the myth that of all peoples in the world, they are the least inclined to premeditated evil."

"You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns."

"profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."

"To legislation... the Puritans resorted. Instead of guiding, they repressed, and thus pitted themselves against the unconquerable impulses of human nature. Believing that nature to be depraved, they f…"

"Kindness is a part of human nature, this is what we have forgotten in our educational system. We emphasize a lot on exams and test results that we forgot the very basic human element in every single i…"

"Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are …"

"I came out stunned. I was angry at them, then. Angry at them for surprising me, touching me like that. Of course I was angry at their stupidity, their manic barbarity, their unthinking, animal obedien…"

"Human beings are not born identical. There are many different temperaments and constitutions; and within each psycho-physical class one can find people at very different stages of spiritual developmen…"

"Maithripala Sirisena: I must say very clearly there is no allegations regarding 'war crimes', there were war crime allegations during the early stages. But at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, ma…"

"I have scars on my hands from touching certain people."

"More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water."