“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”
Alexander Herzen
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
William James
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.”
Oscar Wilde
“No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.”
Samuel Johnson
“Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature.”
Voltaire
“Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically”
Karl Menninger Dr.
