Quotes About Behavior

Nature is cruel but we don't have to be

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

Nature has no Laws — only habits.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

Habits form a second nature.