There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.

People have always wanted to be recognized and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments and now they simply want to be visible.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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

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.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature there is no appeal.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

I mean you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something I think that's human nature.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness the human soul is apt to revive also.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Nature I have constantly argued in my work is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate randomly recarving geography over 10 000-year epochs.

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.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband that they belong to each other in the name of Nature and are lovers by Divine right in spite of human convention or the laws.