Quotes About Human nature

Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.

Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

So it goes when we need to couple. Sex makes idiots of us all. ~ From "Am I Pretty Enough

Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.

People do stupid, thoughtless things every day, and very often there's no understanding why.

As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.")

Tener un corazón capaz de amar, un corazón que puede conocer la ansiedad y el sufrimiento, que puede afligirse y conmoverse, es la característica más específica de la naturaleza humana. El corazón es la esfera más tierna, más interior, más secreta de la persona, y es precisamente en el corazón de Jesús donde habita la plenitud de la divinidad»

Man, as a purely natural creature, fairly educated, but wholly unspiritualized, is a mental composition of: Hunger, Curiosity, Self-Esteem, Avarice, Cowardice, Lust, Cruelty, Personal Ambition; and on these vile qualities alone our 'society' hangs together; the virtues have no place anywhere, and do not count at all, save as conveniently pious metaphors.

When people try to evade problems you first have to ask if it is not just laziness. Jung once said, "Laziness is the greatest passion of mankind, even greater than power or sex or anything." (p. 77)

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Drama is Drama. Bullying is Bullying. No matter what reasons people do it for, it will usually be out of self-interest or for their own enjoyment.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

The goal of all life is death.