It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.