Pastoral Resources

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

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.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

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.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

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

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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.

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

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.