Quotes About Human nature

Its funny how you can do nice things for people all the time and they never notice. But once you make one mistake, its never forgotten.

People expect more than what they give and a lot many are that way, and that's why we can call the world a greedy one.

I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law. And civilization was only a thin veneer over the savagery and greed that were the human default.

You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We humans are a frightening animal. Throughout our species existence, we have used each new technology we have developed to boost the destructive power of our ancient predisposition for killing members of our own species.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

They borrowed in one life, promising to pay back in the next. They believed in a purgatorial type of hell where they would be purged of their sins, afterward passing on to the happiness of unity with the gods. The Druids taught that all men would be saved, but that some must return to earth many times to learn the lessons of human life and to overcome the inherent evil of their own natures.

The expression of God in human nature is universal love. It is within us, not outside of or separate from us. Universal love is the capacity to embrace all in the universe, from the smallest ant to the unfathomable sky, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. Universal love can disarm all prejudices, dissolve all differences, and bring the mind back to one core awareness — that everything comes from the same source.

what's down deep remains amazingly similar. It's not whom you hate, but rather that the system is designed for you to hate someone.

You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

Een warme gezindheid jegens anderen overdrijft het goede even graag, als de kwaadaardigheid er plezier in heeft iemand omlaag te halen.

From some points of view, the demonic is not that which hides in the shadows, but lives among us, is us, in every choice we make and don't make.

But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. —OSCAR WILDE

Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

As far as Kiva could tell, whenever selfish humans encountered a wrenching, life-altering crisis, they embarked on a journey of five distinct stages: Denial. Denial. Denial. Fucking Denial. Oh shit everything is terrible grab what you can and run.

The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.

You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?

You are, at least to a certain approximation, human. You're not supposed to be here.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.