Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

Racism is taught in our society it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

I look for these qualities and characteristics in people. Honesty is number one respect and absolutely the third would have to be loyalty.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element but talent in relationship to will desire and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

In 1963 and later papers I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender race ethnicity language or other such characteristics.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Overall the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.