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“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”

Humans Principles Human Nature Pride Spring Lows Weakness Negative Ancestry

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.”

Ifs Men Humans Doe Human Nature Negative Oneself Contrary Self Worth Contemporary Permanent Analysis Greek Rebellion Rebel Suspicion

Author:Albert Camus

“Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?”

Comedy Human Nature Calling Drama Negative Individuality Creator Social Media Queens Why Not Calling Someone

Author:Lena Dunham

“It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Steps Human Nature Strange Like You Negative Can't Change Step Up

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...”

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”

Ifs Believe Humans Heart Secret Atheism Human Nature Negative Essence Intention Positive Atheism Surface Remembered Divinity Atheistic Supposition

Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity

“It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.”

People Humans Seems Law Enemy Human Nature Easier Negative Program Tasks Hatred Agree Envy Better Off Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek