Quotes About Human nature

We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

If we are negative by nature, we Americans are more human than most. The Founding Fathers loved going negative. Heck, the Declaration of Independence is one long negative ad.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

The world is full of good things it's the people in it that make it bad sometimes.

People will talk about you for as long as you live, so just buckle up and get over it. It's human nature to talk about other people.

The moment you raised your sword, I felt that deep, innate loathing ignite within my core¦the unreserved resentment of human nature. You were the very embodiment of the loathing that dwells deep inside us. But I have to admit, we were once very much like you

There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Fed up with people talking about two faced people. Excuse me but you are being two faced talking about them. We are all two faced. Drop it.

it appears that vice is far more common than one has been led to believe.

Every being we love, up to a point every being, is a Janus, showing us its pleasant face as it moves away from us, and its gloomy face if we know it is permanently available to us.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and that we come to find out about our own can be no more than what other people have shewn us.

nous ne connaissons jamais que les passions des autres, et que ce que nous arrivons à savoir des nôtres, ce n'est que d'eux que nous avons pu l'apprendre.

It is true that this person is to blame for having lied to us, for she had sworn to us that she would always tell us the truth. But we know from our own shortcomings, towards other people, how little an oath is worth.

Human beings are rat-cunning and will happily kill you twice over for a hot meal. That's what long observation has taught me. On the other hand, with a full belly, and a good harvest in the barn, and a fire in the hearth, there's nothing so charming, so generous, no one more decent than a well-fed man. But

Wie weet, flitste 't door mijn brein, of mensen, zo gemoedloos als ik, niet altoos de gewaarwording hebben, dat elke gevoelsuiting van anderen een aanstellerij of een overdrijving is. Ja, misschien acht iedereen zijn evenmens, die hij niet begrijpt en dus niet natuurlijk kan vinden, min of meer een acteur.

Porque así es la gente, desgraciadamente. No se tragan entre ellos, pero para poner en solfa al otro estaban todos de acuerdo, y tan amistosamente, que parecían hermanos.