Human Nature

"All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of…"

"The thing is that underneath we are all humans…Everyone has people they love and people they want to protect, everyone has things they are afraid of or that cause them pain."

"We must stop using the word “race” as a cultural determinant and start using it for what it really is. It is a unifying word. There’s no two ways around it. The Caucasian people will have to accept th…"

"The French symbolists had a special term to express their love for things that had lost their objective significance, namely, ‘spleen.’ The conscious, challenging arbitrariness in the choice of object…"

"bent on destroying the autonomy of the institutions of civil society"

"All policies should be packaged with full awareness of the limitation of human nature in both the short- and the long-term."

"In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality."

"To weld the people into one single unconquerable and all-destructive force – this is our aim, our conspiracy, and our task."

"He could have been that --indeed, he could have been "the most extraordinary figure in … the stream of Jewish charismatic healers," as the same New Testament scholar goes on to say--without attracting…"

"I've been called worse things by better people."

"We are so busy we hardly have time to look at the people we love, even in our own household, and to look at ourselves. Society is organized in a way that even when we have some leisure time, we don't …"

"The development of the idea that the earth circles round the sun in a purely mechanical way in accordance with natural laws—that is, in a way not in the least determined by any purpose relating to man…"

"Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated."

"I remember when Richard Pryor said something about how in South Africa, all the black people should pick up guns and kill all the white people, and they went right on with the interview, and nobody st…"

"I want a truce of God in this country, that we may compose our differences, that we may join all our strengths together to see if we cannot pull the country into a better and happier condition. It is …"

"The Sinclair Lewis Society"

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

"Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire."

"The Family Gatherings of Sri Lankan Society By Dr. Mirando Obeysekere, Daily News, Sri Lanka"

"There is a simpler, finer way to organize human endeavor. I have declared this for many years and seen it to be true in many places. This simpler way is demonstrated to us in daily life, not the life …"