Human Nature

"This is a crisis that was caused by people, white with blue eyes. And before the crisis they looked as if they knew everything about economics."

"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

"I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime."

"Whatever religion they may believe in -- that there must be a law governing humanity and governing relations in humanity, that there should not be an aggressor while others are silent about the aggres…"

"Veronica Roth has a very blunt and not-so-sugarcoated way of killing people off."

"Certain anthropologists would fain teach us that all races are equally gifted; we point to history and answer: that is a lie! The races of mankind are markedly different in the nature and also in the …"

"Awkwafina induces the panic attacks and Nora takes them, a kind of abject confidence that people outgrow in adulthood."

"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work togethe…"

"If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t. It’s like a human bod…"

"A society in which each person is hell bent on maximizing his or her own utility, may therefore have declining overall utility."

"Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen — the census taker — and his la…"

"Oh, they're so royal! We're lucky to have them coming here. But the rabble undoubtedly will be violent. Scum protesters– Oh, these insane people imagining the helicopters landing and the troops– these…"

"No government will ever surrender to the wishes of its people. No society will ever be free from the control of its government."

"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."

"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which…"

"The people who worked for Jim felt like family and he treated them like family."

"There are only about four hundred people in New York society."

"People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else."

"Our country is suffering from the lack of food. We don't have rice for the military. Our country is in a state of anarchy because of the dysfunctional food rationing system. The administration departm…"

"What did I think about Brown? I’ve said before, I don’t like his kind of politics. I didn’t really meet him properly but I identify him with state, state-ism, with simultaneously high morals and low c…"