Quotes About Human nature

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.