Human Nature

"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it."

"My play attempts to put a human face on the immigration debate. It argues that the undocumented Mexican worker and the American working man have more in common with each other than they do with the bu…"

"It is an act of dubious legality, but above all one of unpardonable folly. may make matters even worse for the very people it is meant to be helping...if we are to sanction intervention in Serbia then…"

"And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say — the last and the m…"

"I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh…"

"We don't support bombing other people's kids, unlike the other woman in the race."

"I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."

"You can overbreath. When people at a gym or... jogging... you're offloading... too much CO2. You're causing constriction in your circulation. ...If you were to breath 30 deep breaths, you'll feel some…"

"An "ideal society" would be the graveyard of human greatness."

"I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak."

"There is a saying that an injustice to one is an injustice to all. No one is truly equal and free until everyone is equal and free. When a society allows anyone to be treated as less than equal and th…"

"It would be bad politics to try and summarize a situation which is dynamic. Have faith in mankind and its mission. God the Creator is the God of all mankind. God is omnipotent yet. The Creator of this…"

"I had no doubts as to the correctness of my own beliefs, that human nature could be altered, that man could be forced to evolve morally."

"When the state seeks to compel a man who believes that war is wrong, not merely to abstain from actual sedition, as is its right, but to participate in battle, it inevitably compels him, however deep …"

"Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change."

"Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation."

"Humankind is conceived as primarily motivated by neurochemically mediated emotions resulting from genetic make-up and environmental influences, employing reason and engaging in conscious reflection on…"

"So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human."

"How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about."

"Clodius Albinus surpassed both his competitors in the nobility of his extraction. Which he derived from the most illustrious names of the old Republic, but the branch from which he claimed descent had…"