Quotes About Human nature

Ma non aveva mai tenuto conto della natura umana. Aveva sempre considerato le persone come casi da trattare e problemi da risolvere. Non aveva mai capito che ciascun essere umano era diverso, aveva le proprie idiosincrasie, avrebbe reagito diversamente. Già allora l'aveva ammonita a non aspettarsi troppo. Ma lei si era sempre aspettata troppo, anche se non voleva ammetterlo, e così era sempre rimasta delusa.

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

Yes, so it appears. But you can look at the thing from another angle. Fräulein Greta was his niece and a very lovely girl, but the War has shown us time and again that brother can turn against sister, or father against son and so on, and the loveliest and gentlest of young girls did some of the most amazing things.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human. Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less of a man.

Her qualities were all excellent qualities, but sometimes Edward wished that she had more faults and less virtues. It was her virtues that drove him to desperate deeds.

Mas nós não somos selvagens! Somos civilizados hoje em dia. - Há diferentes tipos de civilizações... - disse Bob vagamente. - Além disso, eu prefiro pensar que todos temos algo de selvageria dentro de nós... Se conseguirmos pensar em uma boa desculpa para deixá-la escapar.

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.

Do you not know, my friend, that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and aptitudes? Mais oui, c'est vrai. One makes one's little judgments—but nine times out of ten one is wrong.

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later…Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.

All people are innately good and forgiving but are situationally evil and relentless

There are no perfect people, just perfect expectations of people

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.

To paraphrase an old Afrikaans idiom; it is necessary to eat a bag of salt with these people to realise the extent of their misery and suffering within touching distance of one of the wealthiest little communities to be found on any continent. For those who wish to follow in my footsteps, it's all there for the taking but it requires moments of considerable insight, humility and understanding of the frailties of human nature. Some would call it compassion.

Afirmar que um sistema político pode suscitar entusiasmo apresentando-se abertamente como portador de uma "doutrina de ódio" implica olhar os partidários como loucos, doentes criminosos ou perversos. Será necessário, então, explicar como é que um povo inteiro ficou louco. Se o é por natureza, que ideia fazemos da natureza humana? Se o é por acidente, como é que nisso se tornou - ou cessou de o ser?

It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he'd been called from his bed before dawn, weary because he'd spent his life looking at the bad side of human nature and that wasn't going to change.

Society's crude, you know . . . it's a brutal piece of work!

I think that people's nature is always to want a better life. So from that, we should not expect human beings to behave for benefit of the rest of nature-of the environment. You can only expect people to help the environment out of their own interest" Proffessor Zheng Zhe

If it took a monster to do that, doesn't that mean we sometimes need monsters?' 'Maybe we do. But that doesn't mean we should forgive them for what they are, even for an instant.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.