I have been allowed to inhabit different shades of human nature and different colours of truth indifferent circumstances.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature. . . . I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.
The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.
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.
Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature.
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.
Civilized ages inherit the human nature which was victorious in barbarous ages, and that nature is, in many respects, not at all suited to civilized circumstances.
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.