Quotes About Human nature

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

You're going to find the good people and bad all around.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.

I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

All good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates in the soul, and overflows from thence, as if from the head into the eyes.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

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.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.