Human Nature Quotes - Page 29

• In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular argument in his favor. For if man is such a mixture, then the best societal framework is surely one in which evil is discouraged and the good encouraged. The libertarian maintains that the existence of the State apparatus provides a ready, swift channel for the exercise of evil, since the rulers of the State are thereby legitimated and can wield compulsion in ways that no one else is permitted to do.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Men, Evil

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• Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history by insisting on separating financial efforts from rewards and pretending this can bring prosperity.

  David Limbaugh

  Smart, Believe, Effort

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• If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, May, Judgment

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

  Lewis Mumford

  Home, Men, Creating

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• The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

  William Graham Sumner

  Civilization, Giving, Envy

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• Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Reason, Humans

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.52

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• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Trouble, Reconstruction, Remedy

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• The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Attitude, Boys, Healthy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.31

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• Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

  David Limbaugh

  People, Assumption, Fantasy

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• I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Humans, Efficient

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• The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

  James Cook

  Law, Fundamentals, Social

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• It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Management, Terrible

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• Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.

  P.B. Kerr

  Littles, Sometimes, Humans

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Fall, Knowing, Purpose

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• ...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

  John Dewey

  Writing, Practice, Imagination

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• Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Selfish, Critics, Humans

  FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Jul 07, 2011

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• I still work that expectation/disappointment cycle all the time. I think it is part of the human nature and I think the most important thing is not to judge it. We are human and we do have expectations and a lot of our expectations are often not met. It is a process of learning how to be kind and compassionate and loving to ourselves when we don't get the things we want when people, circumstances, and opportunities don't match our expectations.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Disappointment, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else in life comes from those two points: the separation anxiety of childhood and the ultimate fear of dying alone.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Dying Alone, Two, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.

  Kurt Wagner

  Struggle, Writing, Together

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Ideas, People, Absurd

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Understanding, Tolerance, Humans

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

  David Duchovny

  Years, Humans, Five

  "David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson On Reopening ‘The X-Files’ And The Possibility Of More – Awardsline". Interview with Joe Utichi, deadline.com. June 17, 2016.

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• I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

  Mark Hoppus

  People, Strive, Something New

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

  Sylvia Earle

  Bigs, Humans, Big Questions

  "Her Majesty of the Deep Blue Sea: An Interview with Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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