We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men
Seeds eat no mudStem eats no seed,Leaf eats no stem,Flower consumes no leafNor fruit eats flower,The fruit, quit the tree with happinessWithout harming it.But the intelligent human-being, eats up all;...
Our imperfection is the perfect experience of being human.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at al...
You'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day t...
I like a look of agony, because I know it's true
Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself
Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.
We have to combine, certainly, but if we combine to fight on the idea of each man making more money for himself, then we end by fighting one another. And that's the trouble now... human dealings are f...
In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the...
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Action is within your control, while Emotion is beyond your control!
We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?