Quotes About Human nature

If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.

God Tris, are you even human?

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

I think most people come toward things assuming everybody is going to be a good person. When you have an interaction where it doesn't go that way, it's very problematic and interesting and weird.

We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.

Though there are still many good people out there in the world, it seems that they're vastly outnumbered by the stupid, selfish, violent ones.