Human Nature

"Humanity ought to be the shining light and roaring thunder that fills up the vastly empty and silent universe."

"It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things do work, but only what kind of quick, easy outer impression they give. If so, there is little hope for our citie…"

"We believed each of us was worthy of being chosen... There is a bond, a comradeship, that never goes away. ... Americans, Asians, everyone who has seen it says the same thing, how unbelievably beautif…"

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is g…"

"People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience."

"The people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own chains and do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs."

"Money is a corporate image depending on society for its institutional status."

"“The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality an…"

"These are the rights of all human beings. They are yours wherever you are. Demand that your rulers and politicians sign and observe this declaration. If they refuse, if they quibble, they can have no …"

"The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocen…"

"I would do anything that is in my power toward the extirpation of that trade which is a scandal not only to Christianity but humanity."

"Music has been a shaping force... music has been there to guide the development of human nature."

"Playing it safe is not productive for anyone, because safety requires gays and lesbians to be invisible, and the inhumanity engendered by making people invisible is anything but safe, rather, it puts …"

"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."

"There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are."

"The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be."

"'Amr ibn Shu'ayb's grandfather said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Anyone who does not show mercy to our young people nor honour our old people is not one of…"

"The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them."

"War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society."

"People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job."