One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
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