All Quotes

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
‐‐ Daniel J. Boorstin

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
‐‐ Conor Cruise O'Brien

Human nature fascinates me.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh

Human nature is above all things lazy.
‐‐ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

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 in humans everywhere.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
‐‐ Graham Greene

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not of itself vicious.
‐‐ Thomas Paine

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
‐‐ Margaret Mead

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
‐‐ Terence

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
‐‐ Jane Austen

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

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.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
‐‐ David Hume

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
‐‐ Matthew Simpson

Human nature is weak.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
‐‐ Bill Gross

Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good.
‐‐ Peter Marshall

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
‐‐ Elihu Root

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
‐‐ Xun Kuang

Human nature says that you want a bargain, whether you want the goods or not. You think that something is a steal, you'll buy it.
‐‐ Jason Statham

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
‐‐ Alison Owen

Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.
‐‐ George Washington Carver

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
‐‐ Fritz Kreisler

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
‐‐ Leon Bourgeois

Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter and energy.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.
‐‐ Andre Geim

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
‐‐ Tony Blair

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
‐‐ Amelia Barr

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
‐‐ Ken Robinson

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.
‐‐ John Yoo

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.
‐‐ Kay Granger

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
‐‐ Trevor Phillips

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
‐‐ Anna Lindh

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton