Quotes About Human nature

The number of those who have nothing to recommend them and of those in whom nothing but good can be found is probably equal

Humans are the villains, they are the killers. That's the truth.... for god sake!

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Golda looked back at me—those peaceful eyes!—and said in the most penetrating voice I had ever heard, 'Because the Nazis taught me this: There is a Hitler inside each of us and if we do not heal the Hitler inside of ourselves, then the violence, it will never stop.

Robert Heinlein once put it . . . Man is a rationalizing animal not a rational one.

Because the Nazis taught me this: There is a Hitler inside each of us and if we do not heal the Hitler inside of ourselves, then the violence, it will never stop.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one staying put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you. No, we all deserve to die Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I! Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death will be a relief

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.

We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.

But as history clearly shows, most people, whether because of nature or nurture, generally put their own interests ahead of others'. This doesn't make them bad people; it just makes them human.

Psychologists have done tests about how humans approach problem solving and found that we are somehow preprogrammed to look for confirmation and not for disconfirmation.

Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of so much that we say and do.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

It's our nature, isn't it? Again and again, we cling to the foolish belief taht simple solutions exist

They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so that it might be justified.