Quotes About Human nature

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Humanity can be pretty stinky.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.