Quotes About Human nature

His response was incomprehensible to me. How could you not want to know...Wasn't curiosity a simple fact of human nature?

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

There is an animal instinct force in humans that creates passion. When you love sometimes you cross a border.

Hell is other people.

I don't think people change.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood; God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Liberty is the original condition of man; to renounce liberty is to renounce the nature of man: after that, how could we perform the acts of man?

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human nature, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, that an empire of that mighty extent and sway could not satisfy the ambition of two men;

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

At heart, we're all violent raging wolves, but in our actions we can be pacifists.

ninety-nine per cent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences.

Sejak jaman nabi sampai kini, tak ada manusia yang bisa terbebas dari kekuasaan sesamanya, kecuali mereka yang tersisihkan karena gila. Bahkan pertama-tama mereka yang membuang diri, seorang diri di tengah-tengah hutan atau samudera masih membawa padanya sisa-sisa kekuasaan sesamanya. Dan selama ada yang diperintah dan memerintah, dikuasai dan menguasai, orang berpolitik.

Laut tetap kaya takkan kurang, cuma hati dan budi manusia semakin dangkal dan miskin.

Ce lucru mai obisnuit decat minciuna, fie ca e vorba sa ascunzi de pilda slabiciunile zilnice ale unei sanatati despre care vrei sa se creada ca e robusta, sa ascunzi un viciu, sau sa te indrepti fara sa jignesti pe nimeni, spre locul pe care il preferi? E instrumentul de conservare cel ami necesar si cel mai intrebuintat.

Man is to man a wolf, man is to man a demon.

Go in confidence, study the rules, and above all things, study human nature for the proper study of mankind is man and you will find that while expanding the intellect and the muscles your enlarged experience will enable you to every day accumulate more and more principle which will increase itself by interest and otherwise until you arrive at a state of independence.