Human Nature

"...eaven for climate, Hell for society."

"Sometimes the most important changes start in small places. The tides of history can leave people in conflict and exile and poverty. It takes time for those circumstances to change. But the recognitio…"

"The follies of Socialism are inexhaustible... Even among themselves they have twenty discordant factions who hate one another even more than they hate you and me. Their insincerity! Can you not feel a…"

"All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppress…"

"It is impossible for us to calculate the vast amount of utterly unnecessary sorrow and terror and misery which mankind in the aggregate has suffered simply from its ignorance and superstition with reg…"

"I rope them all in by givin’ them opportunities to show themselves off. I don’t trouble them with political arguments. I just study human nature and act accordin’."

"When the people condemn me I shall tremble but I shall set my face against the proudest connection in the country."

"I don't believe that right now this country needs a draft. I've proposed a 5% tax break for all people who serve honorably in the military. If you go to the typical income of a veteran, it's about $30…"

"Our beneficent Creator is desirous, that, as he originally favoured human nature with longevity, we should all enjoy the full advantage of his intentions, knowing, that when a man has passed seventy, …"

"Man-made environmental disasters force nature’s hand to unleash its fury on humankind."

"No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts."

"You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation…"

"Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days."

"Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

"To forgive purely because it is nicer to forgive, and to do so when it’s a tough call; to try to speak only kindly of those we know because it is preferable to do so; to enjoy the successes of others …"

"I was very moved by that play once again when the Royal Shakespeare Company did a production that toured the cathedrals of England. Then they took it to Poland and performed it in the cathedrals there…"

"The Robert Benchley Society"

"Take myself as a good-will ambassador. I'm great — I'm taking myself as a character — for the intellectuals and the man on the street. I'm great where Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. leaves off. I'm not so goo…"

"I believe more in the goodness of bad people than i do in the badness of good people."

"Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt."