Quotes About Human nature

It's human nature to get distracted by minor issues. We play Trivial Pursuit with our lives. Henry David Thoreau observed that people live lives of "quiet desperation," but today a better description is aimless distraction. Many people are like gyroscopes, spinning around at a frantic pace but never going anywhere.

As we say in this part of the world," he said to the Discovery, "there's nowt so queer as folk.

Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet… Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English

Cows...weren't like people, with feelings of lonesomeness and worrying about what might happen next. That was just people, wasn't it? Sure, you could scare a cow, but wouldn't they get over it as soon as you let them be? They didn't stand around fretting about the next scare and the next and the next.

All men have a little badness in them,' she whispered. Milo looked at her. 'Sometimes, honey... a woman can be just as evil as a man.

Part of my stubbornness can be put down to human nature. It is hard for anyone with an illness, chronic or acute, to take medications absolutely as prescribed. Once symptoms of an illness go away, it becomes even more difficult.

They fear loneliness and that's why they behave as they do. Perhaps Josie too.

Al mismo tiempo, lo que empezaba a tener claro era hasta qué punto los humanos, en su obsesión por evitar la soledad, hacían maniobras que resultaban muy complejas y difíciles de entender, e intuía que era posible que en ningún momento hubiera estado en mis manos la posibilidad de controlar las consecuencias de la excursión a la Cascada Monrgan

Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

He drank, not because of the darkness in him but the darkness in others.

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Tutti gli uomini sono inaffidabili.

El hombre era el único animal que acababa con la vida de los de su propia especie por millones

Watson. He is our better self.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Não, costumo vez a possessão nas coisas, Damien. Nas picuinhas e nos desentendimentos; na palavra cruel e cortante que salta livre à língua entre amigos. Entre namorados. Entre marido e mulher. Temos muito disso e não precisamos de Satanás para criar nossas guerras. Conseguimos criá-las sozinhos... Sozinhos.

Humans disgust me. Vile creatures.