In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The days of our lives for all of us are numbered. We know that. And yes there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic money success work/life balance the economy the environment parenting family conflict relationships disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting which is a style of parenting that... basically the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer but my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

Success for me its to raise happy healthy human beings.

It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Nature says women are human beings men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings men cry out no!

The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature in society in man himself.

Speech is human nature itself with none of the artificiality of written language.

Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

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.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

I plead for conservation of human culture which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest it is beautiful. If it is not honest it is obvious.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

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

The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person and with the innermost nature of human feeling.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

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