Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
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The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.
You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.
People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.