Quotes About Human nature

El pretexto de elevar lo inferior siempre disfraza la pulsión de deprimir lo superior. A la postre, en todos los intentos de hacer a los animales titulares de derecho descubrimos el propósito de suprimir la realidad espiritual específica del hombre

Love can make even nice people do awful things.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

It has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.

Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

dass es völlig hirnrissig ist, etwas für andere Menschen zu tun, weil man selbst ein Mensch ist und deshalb weiß, wie wenig sie es verdienen? Kaum hat man das erkannt, bricht der Sinn jeglicher Beschäftigung in sich zusammen, und alles, was man fortan unternimmt, kann nur noch als Teil eines Spiels geschehen. Die Christen waren schlicht Pragmatiker mit ihrem 'Liebe deinen Nächsten'. Nur das 'wie dich selbst' hätten sie weglassen sollen.

Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen.

Schon ein paar Tage konzentrierter Beobachtung genügen, um die Vorlieben und Abneigungen, Gewohnheiten und Empfindlichkeiten, Stimmtonarten und Farbschemata der Haut zu kennen, die sich um die Standarte eines Personennamens versammeln und miteinander ein Wesen formen, das 'Mensch' genannt wird, so wie große Mengen von Fischen 'Schwarm' heißen.

This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were meant to talk.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

To love one's country, the governance should be good. But politicians are addicts of power. It is because they don't read that they have become so inhuman. Reading is what makes humans, humans.

You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

I have definitely learned - and this is definitely a human nature thing - that people are willing to, in an interaction with a comedian, admit things and talk about things with candor that they would never admit to a group of friends or an individual.

I'm more into human nature than politics. But they're intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.

I can understand why people want to know who 'the real Ruth Jones' is. That's human nature. But do you ever get that from an interview?

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in….The world would mold men by changing their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ would change human nature.

Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will pass and in the end we will all be brothers, not just blood brothers, as we are, but brothers in spirit. Neither you nor I can change the world or human nature and we can only aim at changing attitudes - and perhaps teach those who have so much to give a portion of their blessings to those who have less.