Quotes About Human nature

There are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual drives must be satisfied.

Mike and I are always drawn to the idea that there is light and dark inside every being, rather than the old two-dimensional trope of good versus evil.

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

I just don't think human beings are designed to have that big of a swing of emotions. I mean, I'm standing in Victory Lane literally seconds after Dale Earnhardt died. Dale Earnhardt was not only my car owner that day, my first victory in 463 tries, but he was my dear friend, too.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.

Sex is a queer and incalculable solvent of human confidence.

Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull;

Because females and males together complete the physical expression of God's image in humanity, the devil is promoting homosexuality and lesbianism.

Because we all lie. Every one of us, and whoever claims they don't is the biggest liar of all.

what monsters might lurk in a man?

Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach, she says. An people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them.

Poor human nature, so richly endowed with nerves of anguish, so splendidly made for pain and sorrow, is but slenderly equipped for joy. —George Du Maurier

What is it with us?

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.