Quotes About Human nature

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368) (Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Now we are not much more moral than the animals. We are only held down by the whips of society. If society said today, "I will not punish you if you steal," we should just make a rush for each other's property. It is the policeman that makes us moral. It is social opinion that makes us moral, and really we are little better than animals. We understand how much this is so in the secret of our own hearts. So let us not be hypocrites.

The cow never tells a lie, and the stone never steals, but, nevertheless, the cow remains a cow and the stone a stone. Man steals and man tells lies, and again it is man that becomes a god.

You can't censor human nature.

We said that there is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself. And, having saved himself, he will commit crimes for increasingly trivial reasons; he will commit them first out of duty, then from habit, and finally -for pleasure.

Pozna?em ca?? zwierz?co?? swego gatunku i ca?? niezwyk?? anielsko??. Przeszed?em t? ciernist? drog? pojedynczej ewolucji, któr? zowi? losem. Jestem jednym z was. Jestem doskona?ym anonimem homo sapiens.

Z?o w??czy?o si? w nasze kody etyczne i sta?o si? dobrem. Fatalnym, rakowatym dobrem.

??? ??? ??? ???? ? ?? ??? ??." "Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

Don't fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because we're afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the world a better place.

People hurt each other. That's how it works. At least you were trying to do something good. Not everyone can say that much.

So far, you've only seen what bad luck can do to people. You're about to take your first good look at what people can do to each other. Believe me: not the same thing.

People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .

Selena said, "Maybe they did have. People are complicated. When you're a little kid, you don't realize, you think people are just one thing; but then you get older, and you realize it's not that simple. Chris wasn't that simple. He was cruel and he was kind. And he didn't like realizing that. It bothered him, that he wasn't just one thing. I think it made him feel . . .

Murder is nature. Hadn't you noticed that? People maiming each other, raping each other, killing each other, doing all the stuff that animals do: that's nature in action. Nature is the devil I'm fighting, chum. Nature is my worst enemy. If it isn't yours, then you're in the wrong fucking gig.

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure. But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

When a woman tells you she is having your baby, your first mind is to get the hell out. It's like if the house is on fire. You don't think to escape, you just do It's human nature because you now she is asking you for your whole life. And a man don't have but one life.

Human nature was such that individuals could respond to reason, to the call of justice, and even to the love perfection of the religious spirit, but nations, corporations, labor unions, and other large social groups would always be selfish.

With the help of God I shall be kinder than my brother, and shall strive for virtue. It is my duty to aspire above my human nature.'"*

Then, my sweet, you are still an innocent, and I am amazed. Lies are far more potent than the truth, and far ore dangerous. They have caused the death of more good men than any deadly truth has done. For human nature is inherently evil and it prefers lies, and delights in the suffering of the just which it has inflicted.

Los hijos deben ser advertidos de la condición de sus semejantes, si no se quiere que mueran en cuerpo o en alma. Los judíos tienen razón cuando declaran que el hombre nace ya pervertido. Sabiendo esto, los niños podrán decirse a sí mismos: "Con la ayuda de Dios trataré de ser mejor que mis hermanos y me esforzaré en alcanzar la virtud. Es mi deber tratar de superar mi naturaleza humana".

If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we haveand the thing weve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously thats going to be our least favourite thing.