WHETHER IT’S A CHILD’S TOY OR A NATION’S OIL, IT’S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT’S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to...

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

Strange combination, isn’t it–gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their...

On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler’s death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as essential...

Auch wenn wir das Meer vor vierhundert Millionen Jahren (nach meinem Kalender) verlassen haben, das Meer hat uns nicht verlassen. Es ist immer noch in uns, in unserem Blut, in unserem Schweiß, in unseren Tränen.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

I really can’t handle talking about this for too long because it hurts too much, but I want to say that there is one thing I’ve learned about people they don’t get that mean and...

After 30 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you look at your partner sound asleep next to you and think they’ve still got potential.

While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the distanced between Marx’s predicted communist society and the form taken by...

No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer’s views of love are flawed. Love can’t be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish...

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.

…the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.

I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I’m just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I...

Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it’s vanity.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the...

The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.

People have been bred to hate for generations — eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for...

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent...

We are built to desire free will and to choose our own destiny. It’s not about being right or wrong; it’s about the celebration of life, your free will. The human spirit must constantly be...

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?

The idea that I can’t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.

People have always wanted to ‘improve’ human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality.

Love. Passion. Belief. Duty. The lines blur sometomes. There are ove fifteen recognised mjor religions on this planet. One religion believes something different from another, and yet so often it’s just the same thing with...

It is the task of the “science of man” to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature. What has often been called “human nature” is but one of...

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed;...

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I’ll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.

It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Why do you have to be the same as the others? …Most of them are stupid.

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those...

Our immune system is evolving through trials of use in fighting illnesses and the bombardment of our modern world toxins and that this evolution not only engages the strengthening of the body and it’s T-Cell...

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing’s impossible.

After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had...

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A...

What’s with all the cheering over the apocalypse, anyway? Oh, yay, we get to kill poor helpless humans.””The excitement over the apocalypse had nothing to do with humans.””Could have fooled me.””Humans are incidental.””Killing and destroying...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires....

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

calculating” part of the brain) responded with a similar intensity to all decisions, regardless of the timing of the options. Brains that work like this would produce a lot of failed good intentions. And indeed,...

if you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.” And with that I left him. I hope, for...

The beauty of a person’s life is only an activity done with an unselfish intention for anyone in his life.

A person’s true friend is his own pure human feature and the surrounding mother nature.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the...

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.