Quotes of: Human-nature Keyword

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

Jakob Dylan

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

Margot Asquith

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

Margot Kidder

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Robert Kiyosaki

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

William Howard Taft

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

Steven Pinker

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord i...

Maurice Saatchi

Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.

Eduardo Galeano

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

John Keats

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

William Pickens

Indeed, the condition of human nature is just this; man towers above the rest of creation so long as he realizes his own nature, and when he forgets it, he sinks lower than the beasts. For other living things to be ignorant of themselves, is natural;...

The Consolation of Philosophy

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Vaclav Havel

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Why Men Fight

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.

Rosanne Cash

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Thomas Jefferson

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

Ai Weiwei

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Adam Smith

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar