Human Nature

"People don’t work to pay taxes, they work to consume."

"Scientists are an agnostic lot, of course—well, most educated people are, aren’t they?"

"We have no grudge against the people of Armenia. The problem is with the Armenian administration. Over 100,000 Armenians live in my country,"

"Thing is, we’re humans. We’re tribal. More settled things are, the bigger your tribe is. All the people in your gang, or all the people in your country. All the ones on your planet. Then the churn com…"

"So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen …"

"I believe from history and my own gut, instinct, that if I go ahead and lay it all out here, what we're really facing, you've got courage and you've got will, and you're gonna get angry and stop carin…"

"The nobility of securing the people's will, is more important to me than Egypt's rule."

"Anybody who sends human aid, please make sure that it reaches hungry and homeless people not to people who will rent BMW M3"

"It is easier to talk about such things like democracy, human rights and freedom. Democracy is just a phrase to be talked about in idle gossip. Democracy means food for the people's stomach, shelter, e…"

"We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness. …"

"stand up to people who want an extreme Brexit either here or in Brussels"

"Those who sell or facilitate weapons to individuals that will commit human rights violations know that they have responsibility for the death and misery caused by those weapons and at some stage may b…"

"I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular publ…"

"We of the Hunt are part of the solution. We offer voluntary murder as a substitute for war. You know that mankind will never be satisfied unless it is killing something. People can’t even properly enj…"

"We don’t make a distinction between factory slavery and humane slavery or cruel genocide and painless genocide. We, rightly so, condemn the entire institution."

"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing."

"Don DeLillo papers archived at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin."

"We must '"go among all classes of the people" as theoreticians, as propagandists, as agitators and as organizers."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These…"

"People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them."