Quotes About Human nature

William Golding

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

Acting like a crowd of kids/ the mask was a thin thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness/ He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in return/ They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought"?Lord of the Flies?

William Golding

Demek istediÄŸim ÅŸu... Bizden baÅŸka canavar yok belki...

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.

A good author insists on being accepted on his own terms, and audiences must bicker awhile before they're willing to give in. One learns not to be resentful about this condition but to credit it to human nature.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Nguyên t?c sâu s?c nh?t trong b?n tính con ng??i Ä'ó là sá»± thèm khát ???c tán th??ng.

The wise man profits by the vanity of his fellow-creatures.

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

Mary had written the names of her thirty-one children on brown luggage labels and looped them through the top buttonholes of their overcoats. Of course the children had exchanged labels with one another the second her back was turned. They were only human, even if they hadn't yet made the effort to become tall.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity. It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. We cannot influence fate: we will all die and our individual beings will be obliterated. But we have a choice in how we live. A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature.

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

Was für eine vorzügliche Einrichtung, daß die Gedanken nicht als sichtbare Schrift über unsre Stirnen laufen! Leicht würde jedes Beisammensein, selbst ein harmloses wie dieses, zum Mördertreffen. Oder wir lernten es, uns über uns selbst zu erheben, ohne Haß in die Zerrspiegel zu blicken, welche die andern uns sind. Und ohne Trieb, die Spiegel zu zerschlagen. Dazu aber, sie weiß es ja, sind wir nicht gemacht.

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason — to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" Molly asks when Vivian reads some of these stories aloud. "It certainly helps," Vivian says.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason—to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

All men are dogs

Human nature...is more powerfully acted on through imagination and sentiments than through intellect and reason.

Civil rights thus does not temper popular sovereignty, it replaces it. What we call political correctness is the natural outcome of civil rights, which makes fighting bias a condition for the legitimacy of the state. Once bias is held to be part of the "unconscious," of human nature, there are no areas of human life in which the state's vigilance is not called for.