Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
The human spirit collapses not when it is deprived of food but when it is denied a dream. - Andy Paula, LifeBeyondNumbers
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