Quotes About Human nature

There were people in the world who were good and people who were evil, but most of them were some mixture of both and did what they did simply because they were mortal.

Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

The scariest monsters are human beings and what we will do to each other.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Not until human nature itself progresses morally will the majority of people prefer peaceful and boring market relations to the violent and exciting relations between coercer and coerced, predator and victim.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and which (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future. My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for ever.

I blame not those who wish to rule, but those who are willing to serve. The same human nature which is always ready to domineer over the subservient, bids us defend ourselves against the aggressor.

este evident ca atat omul, cat si Zeii, oriunde dispun de putere si-o exercita dintr-un invincibil impuls al firii. si voi, ca toti ceilalti, ati actiona exact ca noi, daca ati avea o putere egala cu a noastra.

Civil war brought many hardships to the cities, such as happen and will always happen as long as human nature is the same, although they may be more or less violent or take different forms, depending on the circumstances in each case.

All are by nature prone to err both in public and in private life, and no law will prevent them. Men have gone through the whole catalogue of penalties in the hope that, by increasing their severity, they may suffer less at the hands of evil-doers. In early ages the punishments, even of the worst offences, would naturally be milder; but as time went on and mankind continued to transgress, they seldom stopped short of death.

for it is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well and look up to those who make no concessions.

Most humans she knew were badly damaged individuals.

We should not shed tears. That is a surrender of the body to the heart. It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with our hearts

Unlike other animals we are aware of our instincts, and as a result may attempt to shape or control them.