Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Custom is second nature.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer by nature.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

A civilized nation can have no enemies and one cannot draw a line across a map a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side and good friends live on the other.

To bare our souls is all we ask to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other celebrating our love.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Compared to America or Europe God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence the emotion of the land the living energy of place could be photographed.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Nature is something outside our body but the mind is within us.

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings.

Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry to want to warm up when cold to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature there is no appeal.