Quotes About Human nature

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

I fear human beings, because we cannot predict the swings of a human being. They are capable of doing anything. I really fear that.

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.

In a culture fueled by burnout, a culture that has run itself down, our national resilience becomes compromised. And when our collective immune system is weakened, we become more susceptible to viruses that are part of every culture because they're part of human nature - fear-mongering, scapegoating, conspiracy theories, and demagoguery.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

Fat is fat. This goes back to the word 'plus.' We describe things. We are humans, and we need to describe things.

Evil looks like you and I. I know what evil looks like, and I know that it comes in all shades and colors.

Comparison is a human thing, a normal thing.

Before being a person, man is an animal, with all its reptilian compulsions. And if at some point you block the conscious part of the mind, you've got all the reptilian compulsions that come out.

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

None of my on-screen roles have been outright negative. They have all been grey, and that is how it is in reality, too. None of us are nice and sweet 24/7.

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.