Human Nature

"I was always amazed when people were kind to us."

"We know that the traditional African society was founded on principles of egalitarianism. In its actual workings, however, it had various shortcomings. Its humanist impulse, nevertheless, is something…"

"He is one of those rare people who manages to be lugubriously sexy - like a well-hung eel. -- Emma Thompson"

"The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that i…"

"a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet"

"Discorsi di Richard Stallman – al World Summit on the Information Society"

"Scenery is fine—but human nature is finer."

"I think, as a society, though, I think more and more people are starting to question this idea that the government can do anything, it has some sort of magical power to solve all of the problems; in f…"

"It’s demonstrably not ‘simply human nature’ to annihilate all around us. No, it’s the nature of this particular human culture. Human potential is so much more, and that’s why conflating the two is so …"

"All the walls of a city, which, by family tradition, seemed so mine, witnessed the martyrdom and the inhumane repression inflicted on our people. Cultural memories stressed its urgency. All the archae…"

"Swedish John Cowper Powys Society"

"People aren’t used to poetry that’s so easy and simple."

"People are rarely who they seem to be. Lurking beneath their polite, affable exterior is inevitably a dark, shadow side consisting of the insecurities and the aggressive, selfish impulses they repress…"

"And of course if you look in society, and particularly if you look at curriculum going on in the social justice warrior factory of modern universities in what used to be called the humanities, and now…"

"These are people who want to foil elections... has been always defiant, and always will be despite the pain and fear. It will succeed."

"People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing."

"You live in a land that is compassionate and decent. Because we believe in the rights and dignity of our own citizenry, we are committed to defending the rights and dignity of people everywhere. Ameri…"

"For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ec…"

"When our Constitution was adopted on 26th November, 1949 our statesmen and visionaries had said that the Constitution is as good or bad as people who are entrusted to administer it, wish it to be."

"The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things."