Quotes About Human nature

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.

I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

In this light, human nature is the most important global issue.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.

Every man is in certain respects (a) like all other men, (b) like some other men, (c) like no other man. —Clyde Kluckhohn and Henry A. Murray

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.