Quotes About Human nature

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.