Human Nature

"I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told."

"It seems to me that, for the nation as for the individual, what is most important is to insist on the vital need of combining certain sets of qualities, which separately are common enough, and, alas, …"

"Humans and their petty doings come and go, but the geology endures."

"The very idea that society should serve the poor, the sick, and the marginalized became a distinctively Christian concern."

"So I'm not even sure that he's President of the United States... neither are many of our military people now, who are going to court to ask the question "Do we have to obey a man who is not qualified …"

"Thanks to our trust in people, we won everything."

"The politics of control and manipulation can only have a degenerative effect on civilization and stability. When larger systems dominate smaller ones, society and its members must face a host of bad c…"

"It didn't make any sense to me, to put out a publication, to tell people about atrocities, and ask them to send money so we can tell you next month about more atrocities. Meanwhile, the atrocities kee…"

"I believe people work for satisfaction."

"It's every country's responsibility to cooperate with one another for the sake of their citizens' health, and I believe that it is the international society's responsibility to make sure that Taiwan i…"

"Dialectics in many different forms has a surprisingly good press. Most people believe that struggle is very important and that it is important to be on the right side in a conflict.... Part of the dif…"

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."

"... there are tens of thousands of photographs taken here, all taken very patiently, because decay can be very slow.. Ten months for a human body... they say..."

"It is with appreciation and gratefulness that I accept from you this scroll for the Los Alamos Laboratory, and for the men and women whose work and whose hearts have made it. It is our hope that in ye…"

"This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. There is little left for the rest of the living world."

"When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me hav…"

"The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity."

"...the three Powers, discarding the ideologies of individualism and democracy, have adopted the principle of dealing with human society from the totalitarian point of view."

"For me, the characters are part of the story, and come out of its development. I don't base them on people, or parts of people – the Frankenstein method. I base them on what I've noticed about the hum…"

"I never felt the need to do what everyone else did. And I wasn’t troubled by the fact that other people were doing other things."