Human Nature

"To err is human, whether we are religious, atheist, or agnostic."

"A street is not a street without people..the composition was incidental to the people."

"It is only the individual possessed of the most entire sincerity that can exist under Heaven, who can adjust the great invariable relations of mankind, establish the great fundamental virtues of human…"

"People who wish to be lost always get their way."

"The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invincible...."

"Mankind could not admit an anarchical,— a dual or multiple — universe. The world was there, staring them in the face, with all its chaotic conditions, and society insisted on its Unity in self-defence…"

"Every ideology is contrary to human psychology."

"There certainly is a war on Christianity, it’s coming from some people who are secular Jews, it’s coming from a lot of leftists. Most Jews in America don’t care about Judaism."

"Every human society which has endured long enough to leave records has had elaborate customs and institutions which were effective in instilling into the young the sentiments necessary for its perpetu…"

"Most people never see the trap they are in."

"The biggest existential risk to humanity is humanity itself, unless human beings learn to coexist peacefully and help one another willingly."

"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

"The Eating and Drinking Reformation is at the foundation of all the good that would be produced in society."

"We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people. Information is alienated experience. Information is not something that exists. Indeed, computers don't really exist, …"

"I want it to be there for the people who need it. I don’t want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again."

"That’s why we’ve worked with other nations to create higher and clearer standards for banking and taxation -- because a society that asks less of oligarchs than ordinary citizens will rot from within.…"

"In the fall, acorns, filberts, and hickory nuts are gathered by wildlife as winter stores. Field and pack rats bring in smaller seed such as wild rice from the marshes. If storages are provided, these…"

"It is not possible to make a person or society non-violent by compulsion."

"And so with us, she thought. We come, we go, and, as individuals, we are forgotten. But the stream of human life goes on, ever changing, but ever the same, and as the stream is fed by well-springs hoa…"

"Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober."