“Slavery is also as ancient as war, and was as human nature.”
Voltaire
“When people demand justice they demand blood and when they demand blood they demand justice, Such is the irony of human nature.”
C. Lide Sangtam
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice of slavery.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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
“have declared war on human nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution.”
Pat Buchanan
“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.”
Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt
