Quotes About Human nature

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

A classical view of people as "rational animals" gave way to a new idea, people as "emotional machines.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

The goal of all life is death.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

And if we know how to light a fire, why do we carry tinder around with us?" Because you're humans," the little one explained serenly. "You're stupid.

Nigdy nie w?tp w cz?eka prawego i szlachetnego. Taki zawsze co? spieprzy. Oczywi?cie wszystko w imi? wi?kszego dobra.

Human beings can grow to make killing fields, and they can grow to make gardens.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.

I would not hesitate to say that nine out of ten of the critics of the peace movement get the argument turned upside down. "You cannot change human nature" has become a sort of incantation with those critics. Perhaps you cannot "change human nature" I don't indeed know what the phrase means. But you can certainly change human behavior, which is what matters, as the whole panorama of history shows.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

People love to see people fall.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.