Quotes About Human nature

There was much more wrapped up in that piece of fruit in the garden than just a bad decision. With sin, there always is. We talk ourselves into thinking that sin is just a bad choice; it's not. It's much deeper than that for us, just as it was for Adam.

it's human nature to assume that when we see a mistake, it's due to defects in someone else's department, knowledge, or character,

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems, they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Publius Cornelius Tacitus

How do you draw the line between a healthy, exciting economic boom and a wanton, speculative stock-market bubble driven by the less savory aspects of human nature? As I pointed out drily to the House Banking Committee, the question was all the more complicated because the two can coexist.

Government cannot change the hearts of human beings—it cannot make them that which they are not.

Markets are natural outgrowths of human nature, and natural rights. You own yourself, and you own your labor—and no one has the right to remove that labor from you for the good of the collective without just compensation.

But these experts weren't experts on human nature, it turns out: instead, they used science as a catchword for political priorities that maximized centralization.

Doubting is not unique to a person or a time period. It is the nature of being a finite human living in a complex world filled with pain and disappointment and questions about existence that will never be answered.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.

Money has never made man happy,nor will it,there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge middling ones, and repay great ones with ingratitude.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.