I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
Major Strasser: Perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca human life is cheap.
George Taylor: Chalk up another victory to the human spirit.
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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.
Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.
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.
