Quotes About Human nature

Is it possible to live reasonably without lying? Do lies form the natural foundation of all human relationships, the thread that stitches our individual selves together?

no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were...

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.

that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

A veces, durante cierto tiempo, pierdo por completo la fe en la naturaleza humana; me asalta la duda. Pero Dios Nuestro Señor siempre acaba por devolverme la fe y mostrarme su bondadoso amor a las criaturas.

All we've got left to protect here is a system that's set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.

What I mean is... maybe it's only us...

You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!

Are we savages or what?

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

People don't help much.' He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

I'm frightened. Of us.

Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

Quería explicar que la gente nunca resultaba ser del todo como uno se imagina que es.

They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.

kötülüÄŸün insan yarat?l???nda doÄŸuÅŸtan var olduÄŸu...

And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

man produces evil as a bee produces honey

Roger'?n varl???ndan haberi olmayan, y?k?l?p giden bir uygarl?k, Roger'?n kolunu koÅŸulland?r?yordu hâlâ.

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

hayal ürünü yarat?klardan deÄŸil, ancak insanlardan korkulmas? gerektiÄŸini söyler.

There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast. . .