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“Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.”

Humans May Has Beens Growth Religious Powerful Atheism Human Nature Stronger Positive Atheism Dogma Hamper

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.”

Ifs Knows May Care Difficult Justice Greater Human Nature Theory Equal Difficulty Stronger Asking Practicals Equality And Justice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”

Men Reason Feelings Wish Levels Human Nature Greatness Stronger Beast Convince Contempt Convincing Baseness Greatness Of Man

Author:Blaise Pascal

“...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.”

May Said States Form Human Nature Stronger Anarchy Reign Factions Tyranny Of The Majority

Book:The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution

“The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.”

Men Feels Government Interest Numbers Human Nature Concern Stronger Permanent Stations

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger. When they migrate into a colder climate they must become clothed with thicker fur, or have their constitutions altered. If they fail to be thus modified, they will cease to exist.”

Source: The origin of species by means of natural selection: The descent of man and selection in relation to sex