Human Nature

"You, sir, are walking on a privately owned Main Street—permission to trespass revocable at will. Read the plaque on the ground at the entrance if you don’t believe me. These people aren’t citizens of …"

"The... earthquakes, hurricanes, floods...are the result of the wrong thoughts and actions of humanity... All atoms in creation are interconnected. There is no separation anywhere. If, as today, we cre…"

"If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?"

"One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people."

"No matter what our humanitarian response is to this crisis, it will never be enough. It cannot end the conflict."

"The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The t…"

"The best thing we did with the Patriot Act was to sunset it. Almost 800 foreign nationals, immigrants, mostly Arab-Americans or people who looked like Arab-Americans, were arrested, put in jail, held …"

"If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can be ended only by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are…"

"In Praise of the Human Body" short piece for Outside"

"J. Robert Oppenheimer observed people’s reaction to the use of nuclear weapons and he said, “A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” If we keep silent and sit on the sideli…"

"Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone."

"When I send up the verkramptes, I am always sending up the verkrampte ghosts in me. But I never poke fun at people - it's their ATTITUDES that I find funny. Some of them seem to have their scripts all…"

"A good governance paradigm that limits excesses of human nature and ensures an atmosphere of happiness and productivity by promoting reason and dignity is required."

"I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, …"

"I have never seen faces, but because I have looked people in the eye, only their gazes."

"Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity."

"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were ma…"

"...when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."

"There are people with whom everything they consider a means turns mysteriously into an end."

"Serving humanity is an essential part of Islamic faith"