Human Nature

"Humanitatis optima est certatio."

"We JAH people can make it work."

"When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in-or-out choice to stay in the EU on these new terms; or come out altogether. It will be a…"

"In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter."

"Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it."

"I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist."

"Wars always were contests of similar competing powers, and the deepest structure of society remained the same, whether one won or the other. Contests of classes are fights for new principles, and the …"

"The time had come for one of those Divine manifestations which from age to age are made for the helping of humanity, when a new impulse is needed to quicken the spiritual evolution of mankind, when a …"

"The battle between Good and Evil is a theme of much of fantasy. But I think the battle between Good and Evil is fought largely within the individual human heart, by the decisions that we make. It’s no…"

"I warn you", said Lloyd George, "that I am in a very pacifist temper". I listened last night, at a dinner given to Philip Gibbs on his return from the front, to the most impressive and moving descript…"

"Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself."

"Its highest degree of eloquence, which is beyond the capacity of a human being. However, since we come after the first Arabs we are unable to reach its essence. But the measure which we know is that t…"

"Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!"

"As a word, ecology has been so debased by recent political usage that many people employ it to identify anything good that happens far from cities and without human interference."

"In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never."

"Some people say, "New York's a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." I say that about other places."

"I for one will not re-open the floodgates of Admiralty jurisdiction upon the people of this country."

"PSL connecting people."

"Where people worry is when you get to the brain, the germ cells and the sentinel features that help people recognize what is a person, as opposed to a rat or a rabbit. Things like skin texture, facial…"

"Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: "Well, who are the best people to live with?"