Quotes About Behavior

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.