Quotes About Human nature

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

All men are born good.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Man is a disgusting thing. If you beat him he starts to scream, but if it is the other one who is beaten, then he constructs a theory.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.