Quotes About Human nature

Cik iesp?jams maz gr?kot - ir cilv?ka likums. Piln?ga bezgr?c?ba ir e??e?a sapnis.Viss, kas ir no š?s zemes, ir pak?auts gr?kam. Gr?kam ir pievilkšanas sp?ks.

The towns make men ferocious because they make 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.

As cidades produzem homens ferozes, porque produzem homens corruptos.

Non poteva sapere a qual segno ribolla e tempesti questo mare delle passioni umane quando gli si nega ogni sbocco; come cresca, come si gonfi, come trabocchi, come scavi il cuore, come scoppi in singhiozzi interiori e in sorde convulsioni, finchè non abbia sfondato le sue dighe e rotto il suo letto.

When times is tough and jobs is scarce, folks blame the outsider. It's human nature. And raht now, that's us. In California it used to be

Human nature can't be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it's the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.

was human nature to hate the traitor more intensely than the enemy

All men are rabbits," she retorts, her eyes flying open. "They sniff around, fuck whatever's available, and then they run off. Fucking rabbits. And we're Elmer Fudd, inadvertently blowing up our own lives while obsessively trying to hunt one down.

Knowledge may be power, but it is not resilience, or resourcefulness, or adaptability to life, still less is it instinctive sympathy with human nature;

We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

The gratitude of most men is only a secret desire to receive more favours.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.

You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?

Así de fácil? ¿Les cuento que no soy humana y ustedes responden que ajá lo que sea? - Lo siento, pero creo que has neutralizado nuestra capacidad de sorpresa. Deberías haber empezado por eso y luego decirnos que resucitas a los muertos.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

People were made up of all sorts of different bits, Dru thought. Funny bits and romantic bits and selfish bits and brave bits. Sometimes you saw only a few of them. Maybe it was when you saw them all that you realised you knew someone really well.