Quotes About Human nature

People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

We are all Christ and Hitler. Yoko and I want Christ to win.

I think that we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups. It's very scary when we're all - as wonderful as it is - connected.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Such widely different things as war and picnics will surely show a man up.