Human Nature Quotes - Page 30

• I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Actors, Might

  "Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender on their relationship, onscreen and off". Interview with Joe McGovern, ew.com. August 26, 2016.

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• I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

  Alan Bishop

  Needs, Done, Language

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream

  John Avlon

  Trying, Bleeding, Steps

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• I think forums are great. It's a weird thing to overhear a conversation about yourself. But, the bottom line is that these people are really interested; they get the image and they get very opinionated and it turns into squabbles. You know that's human nature, that's life.

  Rick Owens

  Thinking, People, Lines

  "Rick Owens Interviews Eugene Rabkin, Founder of StyleZeitgeist, On the State of Fashion". www.highsnobiety.com. September 14, 2016.

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• Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Special

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

  Allen W. Wood

  Body, Partners, Theory

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.

  Catherine Wilson

  Peers, Advertising, Humans

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Home, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Views, Law

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Christian, Dog, Horse

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Ideas, Different

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life doing this, I've trained myself to do the opposite of what's human nature, and that is to recoil from things I don't like.

  Arthur Jafa

  Opposites, Practice, Ongoing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Psychology, Way

  Source: libcom.org

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• Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined.

  Noam Chomsky

  Roots, Enlightenment, Fundamentals

  Source: libcom.org

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• To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Eagles, Wings, World

  Source: libcom.org

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• There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

  Noam Chomsky

  World, Bees, Mysterious

  Source: libcom.org

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• You want to teach all kids the skills that are on the better side of human nature: empathy, appreciating how one's behavior is affecting other people, resolving disagreements in ways that do not involve conflict, taking another's perspective, honesty.

  Ross W. Greene

  Honesty, Kids, Skills

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.

  Ross W. Greene

  Skills, Taught, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

  Alicia Keys

  Thinking, World, Emulation

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority and other concepts essential to the establishment of a political society. They saw in Scripture political and legal models - such as republicanism, separation of powers, and due process of law - that they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation in their polities.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Order, Law, Government

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• [John] Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion that his fellow Americans might not have the character to sustain a republican government.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Optimistic, Character, Government

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

  Cody Wilson

  Confused, Men, Humanity

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.

  Hozier

  Thinking, Conflict, Given

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.

  Wole Soyinka

  Believe, Garden, Views

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mean, Views, Greed

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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