Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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Related This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and... PETER MARSHALL Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in... DENNIS PRAGER In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on bet... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. BENJAMIN HAYDON Their fundamental difference was their judgment on human nature. Jefferson believed that people were... HAL BIDLACK I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great... TRENTON LEE STEWART The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. ... DENHOLM ELLIOTT Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like t... CLANCY BROWN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time is the principal occupier of the human space,the arch-rival,nemesis & recompenser of evil & wit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde... NEEL BURTON Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbel... DONELLA MEADOWS In Truth, none seem to have any Title to assert Human Nature to be necessarily and universally evil,... HENRY FIELDING I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveal... MICHAEL SHERMER Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn... SUSAN HOWATCH Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them. SUZY KASSEM To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Most people think they are basically good human beings which means most people are not paying that m... CARL WHITE Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. XUN KUANG No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i... WILLIAM FAULKNER They basically have the autonomy to incur expenditures without any oversight or supervision of the s... STANLEY GIPSON To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situation... MAX VON SYDOW No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t... W. E. B. DU BOIS As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil... CRISS JAMI Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is go... MICHAEL O'BRIEN Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the huma... HARRISON FORD It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human
nature, and to learn to look without ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad... DALAI LAMA The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of... GEORGE WHITEFIELD The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you... BARROWS DUNHAM When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They spea... CRISS JAMI The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they... DAVE BARRY The person who is basically evil by nature will always be averse to virtuous deeds. He is always eng... SAM VEDA Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and agai... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good ... THE WEEKND Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. XUN KUANG Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. ORSON WELLES I must not permit the evil capabilities of human nature to sour my faith in the tremendous good that... MOTHER ANGELICA I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to b... MZ. ROBINSON No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as th... SOURCE UNKNOWN All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All tha... WILLIAM WILEY They seem to be all in good condition. Isn't it just amazing? CATHY HENRY The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own l... JOHN ADAMS The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it... GALILEO GALILEI Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased o... MARA WILSON No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature. ABHIJIT NASKAR The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are... CRISS JAMI To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law... WILLIAM PICKENS You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by... LEO TOLSTOY It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely con... JOHN CALVIN I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of... SIGMUND FREUD The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no contr... LAURENCE OVERMIRE Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere... NEIL GAIMAN They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's ... DAVID BROKAW Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... LISA KLEYPAS The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi... RAMANA MAHARSHI Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine. ALEXANDER POPE Give a human being power, and he or she will think that he or she can control the whole world! This ... PHILIP T. M. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of l... MAHATMA GANDHI To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil... PLATO But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is... ADAM CLARKE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will ... WILLIAM AMES It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It... JOSS WHEDON My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It was... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good... SALMAN KHAN The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature. DAVID O. MCKAY It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam o... JOHN NEGROPONTE Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and ... RICHARD FEYNMAN It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not fi... JANE WELSH CARLYLE None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in t... MORRIS WEST In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms n... GABE NEWELL In a good literary memoir, you're basically rendering the essence of the experience. Whether someone... JOYCE JOHNSON Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even ... STEVEN WRIGHT I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, ... PAUL TAYLOR Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the natu... ERIC HOFFER I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of ve... DYLAN MORAN Passion is the driver of achievement in all fields. Some people love doing things they don't fee... KEN ROBINSON No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. JONI MITCHELL Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th... CHAPMAN COHEN Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human natur... JOHN ADAMS They all seem to be pretty well satisfied. That was the encouraging thing. We had no idea. They seem... BRENT HAYES All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to ... ARTHUR C. CLARKE But of that day and hour no one knows neither the angels in heaven nor the Son but only the Father.�... JOHN OWEN Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It... MICHELLE PFEIFFER The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself ... MIKHAIL BAKUNIN I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. ... MICHAEL HORSE The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as activ... WILLIAM BARTRAM The basic principle for doing the hedging is that it's fairly heavy oil and they want to basically h... ANDREW BLAKELY The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado... APURVA GAGLANI Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does... DONNA LEON Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Here you have the... WILLIAM LAW Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes bac... SOREN KIERKEGAARD
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