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.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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.
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?
Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
