Quotes About Human nature

Les hommes sont si naïfs, et ils obéissent tant aux nécessités présentes que celui qui trompe trouvera toujours quelqu'un qui se laissera tromper.

De aquí que sus concepciones de la historia y de la «naturaleza humana» constituyan los pilares teóricos del pensamiento maquiaveliano.

There is in everything a latent evil peculiar to it.

What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?

People didn't change. they liked what they liked even if they didn't understand why.

Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.

So when we have no other objective than ourselves, we cannot escape from the feeling our efforts are finally destined to vanish into nothing, since that is where we must return. But we recoil from the idea of annihilation. In such a state, we should not have the strength to live, that is to say to act and struggle, since nothing is to remain of all the trouble that we take. In a word, the state of egoism is in contradiction with human nature and hence too precarious to endure.

He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people.

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later

Don't talk to me about sense. i've been alive for forty-seven years and I have absolutely no understanding of human nature whatsoever. I might as well be living with a completely different species, giant squids or perhaps some kind of insect colony.

Throughout history, human nature remains unchanged. The world's oldest questions are still being asked. Medea, Oedipus, we're not adding anything that the Greeks didn't already know.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the human species is, biologically, only partly rational. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation.

Por mais impiedoso e arrogante que o poder possa parecer, seus detentores são meros mamíferos que evacuam e anseiam e que sofrem de insônia e insegurança. Esses mamíferos são também necessariamente vaidosos ao extremo e muitas vezes desejam ser amados tanto quanto desejam ser temidos.

Love is not full of pity (as men say)/ But deaf and cruel where he means to prey. (Hero and Leander, 771–72)

Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

God is willing to forgive you the sin that you carry for being a child of man, but you must forgive yourself for having once been a child.

La gente ha la fastidiosa abitudine di ricordarsi le cose che non dovrebbe

Whether round-ear, pointed-ear, horned, or short, two-legs seemed addicted to dithering.