#human nature

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Human nature is above all things lazy. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

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Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ↗

— Xun Zi

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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 Zi

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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature. ↗

— Xun Zi

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