England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Subdue your appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race what is sweeter to a man than his children?

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

There is but one law for all namely that law which governs all law the law of our Creator the law of humanity justice equity - the law of nature and of nations.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

In the general course of human nature A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature but result from the social process which creates man.