Human Nature

"The fundamental principle of faith of Judeo Christian is there is a God, who is our heavenly Father and all the people on this earth and every speck of humanity on this earth is a creation of God … An…"

"A society that supports a wealthy few at the expense of the larger population is unlikely to persist."

"Maybe I should have killed four, five hundred people. Then I would've felt better. Then I would've felt like I really offered society something."

"You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K."

"One forgets how human murderers are."

"I can transport matter — anything — at the speed of light, perfectly. Of course this is only a crude beginning, but I've stumbled on the most important discovery since man sawed off the end of a tree …"

"Such action is not only a blatant threat to the Taiwanese people's right to survive but also a blatant provocation to cross-strait and regional peace and stability. We hereby express our serious conde…"

"The entire cosmos is made out of one and the same world-stuff, operated by the same energy as we ourselves. "Mind" and "matter" appears as two aspects of our unitary mind-bodies. There is no separate …"

"To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strong…"

"If the path is cleared from up above, can the people down below get near? If the path is cleared from down below both the people up above and the people down below can easily get near, can they not?"

"What after all, has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities, and courage to advocate …"

"It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world."

"Our ideas emerged out of the ground of our action over thousands and thousands of years. And when philosophers were putting forth those ideas, what they were doing wasn't generating creative ideas – t…"

"It is of major interest for us to know something about the energies and forces which are producing the present international situation and presenting the complex problems with which the United Nations…"

"Harry Dresden: As a whole, people suck, but a person can be extraordinary."

"If you want to be in with a gang then you have to go along with hiding people's things."

"Progressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work—individual striving—is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism gr…"

"There is the first condition, the sine quanon. For the selfish no such advance is possible; for the unselfish such advance is certain. And in whatever life the man begins to think more of the common g…"

"The massive upsurge of the Negro people and the support and sympathy aroused in the white community beat the dinosaur back from their first line of defense."

"Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectual…"