Quotes About Human nature

It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Folk wisdom has it that five Jews wrote the rules of society: Moses said, "The law is everything." Jesus said, "Love is everything." Marx said, "Money is everything." Freud said, "Sex is everything." Einstein said, "Everything is relative.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

Involuted Eros and involuted aggression constitute the "autonomous self" or what passes for individuality in the human species.

Sólo es realmente hermoso lo que no sirve para nada. Todo lo que es útil es feo, porque es la expresión de alguna necesidad y las necesidades del hombre son ruines y desagradables, igual que su pobre y enfermiza naturaleza. El rincón más útil de una casa son las letrinas (p.

Bizim gibiler ancak oyunlarda ölür. Bizim gibiler dü?ünceleri yüzünden ölmez. Her zaman 'millet birbirini öldürür.' Biz sadece seyrederiz onlar?.

Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.

That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

no one had been able to give him a reason why people who had excellent reasons to suppose they would destroy themselves if they did a certain thing chose to do that thing anyway.

The Human Contradiction again. The Contradiction, it was more often called among Oankali. Intelligence and hierarchical behavior. It was fascinating, seductive, and lethal. It had brought Humans to their final war.

Lilith watched them enviously. They didn't lie often to humans because their sensory language had left them with no habit of lying—only of withholding information, refusing contact. Humans, on the other hand, lied easily and often. They could not trust one another. They could not trust one of their own who seemed too close to aliens, who stripped off her clothing and lay down on the ground to help her jailer.

are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.

I suspect it's a human characteristic not to know when you're well off," I said.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

Why do men and women like to advertise themselves so much? Is it not but an instinct derived from the days of slavery?

Distrust, not merely the old distrust of nation for nation, but a devastating distrust of human nature, gripped men like the dread of insanity.

Ludzie maj? pot??n? potrzeb?, ?eby czu? si? lepszymi od innych. Niewa?ne, kim s?, musz? mie? kogo?, kto by?by gorszy od nich.

Asher has learned that people have a powerful need to feel superior to others. It doesn't matter who they are – they have to find someone who's beneath them.