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“Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature. It is, rather, belief that the inevitable errors and sins of the human condition are far better overcome by individuals working together in an environment of trust and freedom and mutual respect than by individuals working under a multitude of rules, regulations, and restraints imposed upon them by another group of imperfect individuals.”

“Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.”

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Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

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Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

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Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

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Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world”

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Author:Satish Kumar

“That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.”

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Book:Prey

Source: Prey

“It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.”

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Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.”

“Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.”

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Book:Human Nature and Conduct

Source: Human Nature and Conduct