Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production.

The inclination to exchange thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.