Quotes About Human nature

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.