Heather Brooke Quotes

If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

Heather Brooke

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• Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Nature
  • English
  • View

• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Stop
  • Anger

• But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Human Nature
  • Seed

• The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

  

  Zeno of Citium
  • Life
  • May
  • Nature

• Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Race

• A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Nature
  • Facts
  • Economic

• There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Amazing
  • Goodness
  • Human Nature

• I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Optimism
  • Human Nature
  • Liberalism

• Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Realize
  • Human Nature
  • Cease

• H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Change
  • Human Nature
  • Hitler

• To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

  

  Plutarch
  • Human Nature
  • Commit
  • Conduct

• It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Human Nature
  • Arguments
  • Predisposition

• Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

  

  John Milton
  • Reading
  • Human Nature
  • Necessary

• When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Way
  • Run
  • Human Nature

• I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Proud
  • Hurt
  • Start

• I'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Why
  • May
  • Intelligence

• Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Dusk

• The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

  

  Curt Sachs
  • Companion
  • Dance
  • Existence

• If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Human Nature
  • Free money