There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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.
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.
Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature