Human Nature

"Humanity has its weaknesses, and woman is perhaps the weakness of man!"

"It looked as though the people we thought we knew best carried secrets that they didn't even know themselves. Charley had a sudden inkling that human beings were infinitely mysterious. The fact was th…"

"Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe. And what we need now more than ever is a human rights movement that challenges systemic racis…"

"“I’m one of the few MPs who never has a prepared text for everything I do, because I don’t have a bunch of people telling me what I have to say,"

"Most institutional theories see local actors – whether individuals, organizations, or national states – as affected by institutions built up in much wider environments. Individuals and organizations a…"

"Everyone is against me - except the people!"

"Every political debate these days contains a lot about economic policies. So much so that sometimes I think people get a little tired of hearing about them. Naturally there is a cry that Government mu…"

"Thus the Koran, in this matter of slavery, is the enemy of mankind ... While the prescriptions by the Prophet regarding the just and humane treatment of slaves contained in the Koran are praiseworthy,…"

"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."

"It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniq…"

"People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity."

"And traffic! Traffic's a nightmare! That's how people describe it, a nightmare. Has anyone had this nightmare? "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" "What is it, darling? Are you all right?" "No, I'm not all right at …"

"The confirmed local cases are mostly people who were infected overseas before returning to Taiwan and the only two indigenous cases are people who were infected by other members of their household. Th…"

"Gambling, in the ultimate study, stems from the passive, the submissive, the irresponsible in human nature; the gambler is one of an inferior lickspittle breed who turns himself belly-upward to the ca…"

"Scientific reflections ... tear the mask of humanity from the "better class" and disclose the hideous countenance of the beast of prey."

"One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech . How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How…"

"If you are going to build the Empire State Building, the first thing you need to do is dig a deep hole and pour a strong foundation. If you are going to build a home in the suburbs, all you need to do…"

"We are agreed that before we kill each other we should better serve mankind by killing those who order us to kill each other."

"But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression."

"When a unit group is destroyed, a real individual is ‘killed’ above and beyond whatever human losses are incurred. The destruction of a feature group, in contrast, whatever the cultural loss, is not a…"