Quotes About Human nature

The dolphin, they live for today. But I am human. To be human is to live for tomorrow. Why does tomorrow matter? What is important is now.

Do onto others as you would have others do unto you' is our highest, most developed morality, Dr. Sosa said. And really the only one necessary; all the others flow from that; you don't need Ten Commandments. But if you do believe, as I do, that morality starts with God, then you have to wonder why He simultanelously hardwired us against it.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.

Freedom is so much the essence of man that even its opponents implement it while combating its reality; they want to appropriate for, themselves as a most precious ornament what they have rejected as an ornament of human nature. No man combats freedom; at most he combats the freedom of others. Hence every kind of freedom has always existed, only at one time as a special privilege, at another as a universal right.

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

By the end of the war there was nothing about men and women that surprised him. Nothing about anything really. The whole edifice of civilization turned out to be constructed from an unstable mix of quicksand and imagination.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.