It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Hell is other people.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.