He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
On Kwajalein, Louie and Phil leared a dark truth known to the doomed in Hitler's death camps, the slaves of the American South, and a hundred other generations of betrayed people. Dignity is as essent...
Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
Ambiguity begets participation.
An anti-hero is just a villain you spend a lot of time with.
Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that any deliberate campaign to achieve it is so misguided, is that it isn't an achievable goal in itself but only an afteraf...
Its easy to lie, but hard to confess
You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
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...
And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may well be that it was not a very exceptional one. There must have been many men who have had a good deal...
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the o...
A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
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