In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.
Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
I would say I'm basically interested in human beings, and I don't really care whether they're men or women. I think my comprehension is about the same for both.
A lot of times I'll make films that are mostly character-driven films - stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.
Tom: Either she's an evil, emotionless, miserable human being, or... she's a robot.
Bill Sampson: Have you no human consideration? Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have!
Enzo: Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
