Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.
One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists. It's a trait of human nature that I'm particularly in touch with. So I tend to project it onto my characters.
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.
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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.
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters.
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.
Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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.
