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Quotes About Human nature

No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.
~ Malcolm Fraser
Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Man is nature's sole mistake.
~ William Gilbert
How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!
~ William Godwin
I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.
~ Tim Kaine
People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.
~ Thomas Gibson
I think, as a choreographer and an action designer, you're constantly giving your characters problems to overcome. That's what makes it fun for choreography. But it also makes it fun for the audience to see them solve those puzzles and how they are as a human being.
~ David Leitch
There are people who just love to destroy other people. It saddens me to admit that, I think, at whatever state of human civilisation we arrive at, the will to destroy other people is something that is innate in some people.
~ Tobias Forge
I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.
~ William Kempe
We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.
~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Don't fall for the ones who say, I am always yours. They are liars, unfortunately humans too
~ Rushabh Patel
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. des fieri sentio et excrucior.I hate and I love. You may ask, why I do this. I do not know. But I sense that I do and it pains me.
~ Catullus
Nu poÅ£i r?mâne niciodat? cu o singur? prezen??, nu te poÅ£i d?rui niciodat? unui singur lucru. Firea asta omeneasc? este atât de fundamental tragic? încât te cheam? necontenit în cel puÅ£in dou? direcÅ£ii, paralele dac? nu opuse.
~ Mircea Eliade
If God is a loving God He will forgive us Himself. If God is a vengeful God then He has created us in His Image.
~ Miriam Toews
Ljudi su ljudi i sve je ljudsko samo ljudsko, nažalost!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Svi smo mi maske i svi smo mi zakrinkani i svaki ?ovjek ima s vremena na vrijeme potrebu da skine svoju masku na jedan tren, da se raskrinka, da progovori po crti svog intimnog raspoloženja...
~ Miroslav Krleža
Sami lopovi vrve svijetom, kao crvi u crvljivom mesu: sumnja velika i nepovjerenje na sve strane, a i dobro da je tako, jer je ?ovjek ro?en kao lopov!
~ Miroslav Krleža
Morrie believed in the inherent good of people. But he also saw what they could become. "People are only mean when they're threatened," he said later that day, "and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
~ Mitch Albom
We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.
~ Mitch Albom
So we were created with a piece of divinity inside us, but with this thing called free will, and I think God watches us every day, lovingly, praying we will make the right choices.
~ Mitch Albom
Mum always told me that you couldn't know what people would do in a crisis, but I'd thought she just meant you should forgive people for behaving like weasels under bad circumstances, not that a stale biscuit like Khamis might suddenly come over all heroic in a tight corner.
~ Naomi Novik