Quotes About Human nature

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.

I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

Man is almost always as wicked as his needs require.

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Human nature doesn't change, Randy. Education is hopeless. The most educated people in the world can turn into Aztecs or Nazis just like that." He snaps his fingers.

What's the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. —Confucius

Doesn't matter. Seeing her, talking to her, makes you feel bad. And at some level, your brain wants the thing that makes you feel bad to go away. Simplest reaction in the world. Doesn't make you a bad person. Doesn't mean you have to give in to it.

It only takes a single generation to revert to savagery.

I have come to the conclusion that the true benefit of religion is not to make people virtuous, which is impossible, but to put a sort of bridle on the worst excesses of their viciousness.

Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

Evidence shows that nature doesn't actually care about our health or longevity. We're equipped by natural instincts to sift between some of what might harm us and some of what may bring us comfort. Yet there is no hint from space that anyone or anything in the universe will arrive to save us from Earth, or from ourselves. It is we alone who care about us.

A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.

With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about. Aren't people that way everywhere: Amina said. I mean, when they lose something?

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.