Quotes About Human nature

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning

el concepto de amor, a pesar de su fragilidad ontológica, ostenta u ostentaba hasta fecha reciente todos los atributos de una prodigiosa potencia operatoria. Forjado a toda prisa, tuvo inmediatamente un gran público, e incluso en nuestros días son pocos los que renuncian clara y deliberadamente a amar. Este evidente éxito tendería a demostrar una misteriosa correspondencia con no se sabe qué necesidad constitutiva de la naturaleza humana.

La gente necesita sexo, eso es todo, lo que pasa es que no se atreve a confesarlo.

En todo caso, a cualquier observador imparcial le resulta evidente que el individuo humano no puede ser feliz, que no ha sido concebido en absoluto para la felicidad, y que su único destino posible es propagar la desgracia a su alrededor, haciendo que la vida de los demás sea tan intolerable como la suya propia; y por lo general, sus primeras víctimas son sus padres.

L'homme n'est ni ange, ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête" [El hombre no es ni ángel ni bestia y, por desgracia, el que quiere hacerse el ángel hace el tonto].

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

We're all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Las dos cosas que más odia el ser humano son: esforzarse y responsabilizarse por sus actos.

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una

El hombre nace bueno, es naturalmente bueno; la sociedad le malea y pervierte...

O mal é nosso - culpa nossa, natureza nossa.

Practically every desire that has become part of human nature, from sexuality to aggression, from a longing for security to a receptivity to change, has been exploited as a source of social control by politicians, churches, corporations, and advertisers.

Gdy? czÅ'owiek w swej zÅ'oÅ›ci jest okrutniejszy i bardziej zatwardziaÅ'y ni? krokodyle Rzeki. Jego serce jest twardsze ni? kamieÅ". Jego pró?no?? jest l?ejsza ni? pyÅ'. Zanurz go w wodzie, a gdy odzie? jego wyschnie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem. Pogr?? go w trosce i w rozczarowaniu, a gdy siÄ™ znów podniesie, bÄ™dzie taki sam jak przedtem.

Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and simple, for so there have ever been and ever will be. The strong man sets his foot on the neck of the weakling; the cunning man runs off with the simpleton's purse and sets the dunce to work for him. Man is a crooked dealer and even his virtue is imperfect. Only he who lies down never to rise again is wholly good.

Just because you were human didn't mean you weren't a monster.

GOOD People are GOOD People. Selfish, Greedy, Self-Centered, and Evil People will always be the same. Money has nothing to do with it.