“Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”
Abraham Lincoln
“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
“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.”
William D. Tammeus
“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
“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.”
Karl Kraus
