A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of...
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
