Quotes About Human nature

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Love is not ful of pittie (as men say) But deaffe and cruell, where he meanes to pray.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions... and comparisons.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.