#human nature

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

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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

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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. ↗

— Anna Sui

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