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“No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.”

Humans Law Evil Doubt Human Nature Morality No Doubt Wickedness Jack The Ripper

Source: Not That it Matters

“It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?”

Men Humans May Government Human Nature Wickedness Prudence Insufficient Caprice

Book:The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes

Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes

“I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But, alas, since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of- war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”

Men Humans Has Beens War Five Week Human Nature Theory Higher Hundred Passing Passings Valleys Crew Alas Wickedness

Author:Herman Melville

“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.”

Humans Has Beens Names Speak Poor Greater Human Nature Crime Fool Kings Weakness Committed Horrible Anarchy Definite Wickedness Policemen Insistence Charlatans

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.”

Humans Christian Girl Human Nature Abortion Conception Wickedness Procreation Fetus

Book:Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis

Source: Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis

“The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?”

Humans Heart Soul Today Speak Space Greater Human Nature Weakness Prison Wounded Definite Submission Wickedness Insistence Caged Charlatans

Author:Emma Goldman

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