Quotes About Human nature

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Man's nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Human nature seems to me like the Alps. The depths are profound, black as night, and terrifying, but the heights are equally real, uplifted in the sunshine.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!