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It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. -- Stone Gossard
I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. -- Sarah Kay
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred. -- Antony Beevor
If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. -- Kit Williams
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting. -- Nicolas Berggruen
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. -- Shirin Ebadi
My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces. -- Karan Johar
It's a human instinct to be known. -- Natasha Leggero
Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst. -- Alexandra Kollontai
The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. -- Kenneth Grahame
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. -- Carl Sagan
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' -- Timothy Keller
To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. -- Rebecca West
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it. -- Mark Twain
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts. -- Joshua Ferris
There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example. -- Tim Wu
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. -- Jon Meacham
I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue. -- Max Minghella
I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. -- Sarah Kay
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
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To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature. -- Henry Cantwell Wallace
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. -- Lemn Sissay
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. -- Frans de Waal
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct. -- Frans de Waal
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. -- Adam Hochschild
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. -- Ben Bernanke
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. -- Paul Begala
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. -- Theodore Dreiser
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. -- Bertha von Suttner
Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. -- Louis MacNeice
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. -- Henry Villard
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. -- Clarence Darrow
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. -- Samuel Johnson
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. -- Barbara Demick
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. -- Graham Greene
Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. -- Deepak Chopra
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. -- Lofty Wiseman
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. -- Graham Greene
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. -- Gerald M. Loeb
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. -- Boris Sidis
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. -- Edvard Grieg
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. -- Alexander Pope
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. -- Steve Redgrave
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. -- Maurice de Vlaminck
Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long. -- E. Jean Carroll
Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct? -- Honore de Balzac
Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately. -- Sol Stein
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience. -- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent. -- Stefan Zweig
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd. -- John Train

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