Human Nature

"To me, this is the most exciting thing about the Dark Mountain Project. It is a vision that a few years back would have seemed heretical to many greens, but which is now gaining wide traction as the f…"

"is forcing the American people to buy health insurance or else pay a tax. Our health care system is moving toward one that rations care and negatively impact millions of Americans."

"The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values."

"emember that because everyone is made in the image of God, and therefore has inalienable dignity, everyone is also susceptible to deformations of virtue — that is to say, sin. This ought to make us al…"

"Attempting to be a people pleaser is a fruitless task so, fuck it."

"In the conflict of ideologies the Hindus have made their position perfectly clear. We hate Nazism and Fascism. We are the enemies of Hitler and Mussolini. We are longing and struggling for our own ema…"

"People cannot live completely by themselves."

"Morgenbesser in response to B.F. Skinner: "Are you telling me it's wrong to anthropomorphize people?"

"No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together."

"The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people."

"All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than tha…"

"It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers killing people for play and offending life, destroying the dream, and making lo…"

"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."

"We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and…"

"I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman."

"Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any o…"

"A New Britain where the extraordinary talent of the British people is liberated from the forces of conservatism that so long have held them back, to create a model 21st century nation, based not on pr…"

"What made Ingolfur Arnarson a great man was first and foremost his ideals, his unquenchable love of mankind, his conviction that the people needed improved conditions of life and better facilities for…"

"For us, for our children, Africa and its people teach us a powerful lesson -- that we must uphold the inherent dignity of every human being. Dignity -- that basic idea that by virtue of our common hum…"

"The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders."