#human nature

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#characteristics #does #every #human #human nature

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#always #been #disinclined #england #human

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#am #american #cause #changed #downward

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#disappearing #human #human nature #i #i see

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#hard #hard thing #human #human nature #monogamy

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#beings #human #human beings #human nature #include

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

— Steven Pinker

#back #biologists #centuries #going #human

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

— J. P. Donleavy

#disappointed #found #gave #got #human

Human nature is above all things lazy. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#all things #human #human nature #lazy #nature