Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

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.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

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.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

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

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

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

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

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

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.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

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

But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

Envy is human nature.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

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

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

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

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.