Human Nature

"Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people."

"The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands."

"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself."

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"I tell the Iranians that if they hear from people here or there that pictures of Ayatollah Khamenei are hung in Iraqi homes, it is a lie."

"We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins"

"That is a glorious doctrine to instill into society."

"What would happen to the world if we were human?"

"Human nature is above all things — lazy."

"The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole …"

"One of the most popular superstitions consists in the belief that every man is endowed with definite qualities—­that some men are kind, some wicked; some wise, some foolish; some energetic, some apath…"

"Perhaps the male in human society is useless. I am frank to admit that I don't know. If women are beginning to feel this way about it--and there is striking evidence at hand that they do--then we are …"

"People aren't either wicked or noble," the hook-handed man said. They're like chef's salad, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."

"Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy."

"For as when much superfluous matter has gathered in simple bodies, nature makes repeated efforts to remove and purge it away, thereby promoting the health of these bodies, so likewise as regards that …"

"Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people."

"Either we sacrifice our national selfishness for the good of humanity, or we sacrifice the good of humanity to our national selfishness."

"I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?"

"What is at play here is a horror of flesh: a rubberised capitalist repugnance for the meat and intimacy of human sexuality."

"If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now."