Quotes About Human nature

I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.

I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

Everyone loves a love story, and everyone wants to know who's getting on with who, it's what makes the world go round.

None of us knows what a good or bad person is. In real life we're all brilliant and a bit rubbish.

It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

the more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly of society, how it operates, and how that reflects their so-called betters.

But the problem is that the fundamental structure of scapegoating is not broken in the acceptance of the latest "other." If the underlying scapegoat mechanism is not decommissioned, then new "others" will always arise to protect the group from its own internal conflicts. For

Like pornographers fretting under the burden of their wish dreams, these obscene buffoons suddenly found it unnecessary to assuage their fever among the pages of forbidden books or to pay for relief in some bordello, because a government of lonely fanatics swept into power and gradually lent official sanction to the dirtiest, saddest aspects of human nature, the lack of imagination which leads the ill to put their most libidinous nightmares into practice.

Above all we get by in societies where the often anonymous state is there to guard against the crude selfishness of human nature.

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Human nature was becoming an assembly-line edit, Humanity itself increasingly relegated from production to product.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Carlo: Yeah. You were seen in court once with a Pentagram inside your hand and you held it up and showed it to the press and the audience. Why did you do that? Did you feel that it would protect you, or were you just making a statement that you were in alliance with the Devil? Ramirez: Yes, it was a statement that I was in alliance with ... the evil that is inherent in human nature. And ... that was who I was.

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its seat, and rule in its stead.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

Research on calibration—how closely your confidence matches your accuracy—routinely finds people are too confident.10 But overconfidence is not an immutable law of human nature. Meteorologists generally do not suffer from it. Neither do seasoned bridge players. That's because both get clear, prompt feedback.