Quotes About Human nature

if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

Lycans are human.

The brain highlights what it imagines as patterns; it disregards contradictory information. Human nature yearns to see order and hierarchy in the world. It will invent it where it cannot find it.

I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal.

Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

What's important to me about horror stories is to look at what's actually horrifying about humanity, instead of shining a flashlight on it and running away giggling.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

I'm only a human being. I'm not a robot.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

I describe myself as a human being.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.