Quotes About Human nature

Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

It isn't fair, or right, but it's dreadfully human, the way we tear each other apart.

People are people. Hateful and peaceful. Content and miserable. Honest and deceitful. With all of that inside fighting for control every minute of the day, it's a wonder everybody's not banging their heads against the wall.

it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.' – Book 3, Chapter 16

All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

Why aren't we designed to be unable to harm one another? Why aren't our brains wired so that we can't kill or rape or steal or lie or deceive? Why are we formed with the capacity to hate and envy?

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on. When

He saw that, without exception, human beings were driven by self-interest.

She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so in bad times than good. Movies had never drawn more patrons than during the Great Depression. Book sales often improved in a recession. The need went beyond a mere desire for entertainment and distraction from one's troubles. It was more profound and mysterious than that.

Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Pero nadie es por completo honesto con todo el mundo, siempre y en todos los aspectos. Qué diantre, la necesidad de engañar no es más que otra de las maldiciones que debe soportar nuestra pobre especie.

I have had successes but also failures, because whatever else I might be, I am first and foremost human, and the tendency of our fallen kind is to fall again.

The only monsters were people.

However, madness is a different thing from sociopathy, and the potential lies in every heart.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.

I understand why the world is shapen as it is, that we should have free will and be more than ants, that we must know evil if we're also to know good.

Parasitism," Daniel said, "isn't natural to Homo sapiens or to any species of mammal." Beaver Cleaver would never have heard that line from his dad.

Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

Il (l'homme) ne te donnera jamais que ce qui ne lui est bon à rien, et te demandera toujours ce qui lui est utile.

Let me tell you, the bite of the serpent is nothing compared to the bite of your fellow man.

Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them. Coronado: Stories

The worst of us has good in him. The best of us has pure fucking evil in his heart. We battle. It's all we can do.