Quotes About Human nature

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Satan walks nowhere on this Earth, nor has he ever, save where he treads within the human heart.

You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

To insult someone we call him 'besti*l'. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Every human, is capable of animalistic behavior. But for God, human abode will be a wild desert with untamed animals

The hardest thing on earth is to know the ways of men and still manage to be in good spirits.

As Browning writes, "If ordinary Serbs, Croats, Hutus, Turks, Cambodians and Chinese can be the perpetrators of mass murder and genocide, implemented with terrible cruelty, then we do indeed need to look at those universal aspects of human nature that transcend the cognition and culture of ordinary Germans.

Ik waande ons onschendbaar en als iets niet stuk kan, doe je er automatisch een stuk minder voorzichtig mee. Heel normaal, dat is menselijk. Nee, het is niet normaal, maar zo zijn mensen. Het onkwetsbare moet gekwetst worden.

Why is the raw body so unloved when it's out-loud? Just veins, blood, what we're made of?

a seed of evil dwells primarily in humans and their thoughts and not in visible reality.

Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above. K. Hepburn in The African Queen

"Only a novel"… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.