Quotes About Human nature

Because we can better ourselves. Should we give in to our impulses to kill or hurt any who anger us? To take whatever we want from those are weaker and in general to disregard the feelings of others? We are made imperfect and must guard against our flaws lest they destroy us.

We are reminded of the comment by Linus in the comic strip Peanuts: "I love humanity—it's people I can't stand.

Humans were strange that way, believing they could hoard what they loved like gold and keep it safely hidden away in their vaults.

Boys enjoy the misery of their companions, at least village boys in that day did, and in later life I have found that all adults are not free from the peculiarity.

Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.

En suma todo el mundo, si se mira bien, participa de alguna de esas categorías. Cada uno de nosotros de vez en cuando es un cretino, un imbécil, un estúpido o un loco. Digamos que la persona normal es la que combina razonablemente todos esos componentes o tipos ideales.

Le guerre sono lo sfogo più efficace e naturale che si possa desiderare per tenere a freno la crescita degli esseri umani. Non si diceva infatti un tempo, partendo per la guerra, Dio lo vuole? Ma bisogna trovare gente che la guerra abbia voglia di farla. Se tutti si imboscassero, in guerra non morirebbe nessuno. E allora perché farle?

Lanny, climbing the hill, carried a thought which by now had become his familiar companion: Why, oh, why did men have to make their lives so ugly? What evil spell was upon them that they wrangled and scolded, hated and feared? He

Their frail human nature was subjected to a strain greater than it was made for; the fires of greed had been lighted in their hearts, and fanned to a white heat that melted every principle and every law.

What shall we say to the wicked man to make him be good, if we cannot reward him with a heaven and frighten him with a hell? Well, my first answer is that we have been trying this process for a couple of thousand years, and the results seem to indicate that we might better seek out some other method of inducing men to behave themselves.

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What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is in essence, simply human nature. All the worlds nations, therefore, have a great deal in common with one another. The foundation of any national character is human nature. The foundation of national character is simply a particular colouring taken on by human nature, a particular crystallisation of it.

Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The fate of both man and the totalitarian State depends on the answer to this question. If human nature does change, then the eternal and world-wide triumph of the dictatorial State is assured; if his yearning for freedom remains constant, then the totalitarian State is doomed.

Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The fate of both man and the totalitarian State depends on the answer to this question.

Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant—and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civilian.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Sin as little as possible-that is the law of mankind. Not to sin at all is the dream of the angel. All earthly things are subject to sin. Sin is like gravity.

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

The poacher works in the woods, and the smuggler in the mountains or on the sea. The towns make men ferocious because it makes them corrupt. Mountains, sea, and forest make men reckless. They stir the wildness of men's nature, but do not necessarily destroy what is human

The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

Eponine e Azelma não davam pela sua presença. Era para elas como um cachorro. As três meninas juntas não somavam 24 anos de idade e já representavam toda a sociedade humana; de um lado a inveja, do outro o desprezo.