Quotes About Human nature

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Fear and I were born twins together.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Homo homini lupus

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

The fundamental question of classical political philosophy is whether there are some conventions (nomoi) which are natural, i.e., whose force is not due simply to arbitrary human invention.

at any given time there are more cannibals than philosophical pessimists.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Man, were he not corrupted by governments, is naturally the friend of man, and . . . human nature is not of itself vicious.

for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.

Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

it is human nature which does not change, no matter the era or situation.

Clients didn't value what they got for free. It was human nature to devalue what came too cheap or easy.

Lord Buddha himself taught that basically, human nature is pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature clear, not cloudy. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there; clouds don't alter the fundamental nature of the sky. Similarly, the human mind is fundamentally pure.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Revenge is not a noble sentiment, but it is a human one.

You see in moments of duress not only the darkest parts of human nature but also the brightest, the most noble.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.