Quotes About Human nature

the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands. It would serve us well today to understand why.

We share Hitler's planet and several of his preoccupations; we have changed less than we think. We like our living space, we fantasize about destroying governments, we denigrate science, we dream of catastrophe. if we think that we are the victims of some planetary conspiracy, we edge towards Hitler. If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we are moving in Hitler's world.

L'unica rivoluzione che serve è quella dentro di te. Le altre si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete.

Le radici dell'orrore sono dappertutto. L'orrore siamo noi.

FOLCO: Non servono le rivoluzioni? TIZIANO: E da qui il mio passo verso l'unica rivoluzione che serve, quella dentro di te. Le altre le vedi. Le altre si ripetono, si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete, si ripete, si ripete.

Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

Everyone has a theory of human nature. Everyone has to anticipate the behavior of others, and that means we all need theories about what makes people tick." Steven Pinker

The science of human nature… finds itself today in the position that chemistry occupied in the days of alchemy." Alfred Adler

William James defined psychology as the science of mental life, but it could equally be defined as the science of human nature.

They have destroyed a man, who three months ago they doted on, because they are afraid of what they might learn about human nature. They have learned enough and they have turned the key on it. We are near the end of the century and are as primitive as we were at its beginning.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

We have designed a capitalist system wrong. We assume human beings are one-dimensional, all they do is make money, so we've created a money-centric world.

Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. He

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

And all men kill the thing they love, By all let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!" Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1898

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

People suck. They do stupid things and they're not nice. The end.

There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.

Mr Wooster, I am not ashamed to say that the tears came into my eyes as I listened to them. It amazes me that a man as young as you can have been able to plumb human nature so surely to its depths; to play with so unerring a hand on the quivering heart-strings of your reader; to write novels so true, so human, so moving, so vital! Oh, it's just a knack, I said.

A detective is only human. The less of a detective, the more human he is. Henry was not much of a detective, and his human

The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely.