Quotes About Human nature

Tous les Hommes sont sales d'une manière ou d'une autre. Seulement, il y a ceux qu'un simple verre d'eau suffit à laver, et ceux que tous les océans de la terre ne sauraient purifier.

All men are dirty in one way or another. Only there are those who can be washed by a simple glass of water, and those who could not be purified by all the oceans of the earth.

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?

Eventually, it can lead us to have compassion for everyone, when we see how we all must struggle with the downside of human nature. Everyone is crippled in some area, and everyone is somewhere on the path of evolution, some ahead of us, and some behind.

At it's most basic level, we believe man is essentially good. Organized religion and big government believe the opposite, that man is fundamentally evil and needs to be controlled or policed.

Risk is asymmetrical because people tend to run away when things go wrong and crowd together when things go well. That's just human nature.

David Foster Wallace believed that 'high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.' They are also, it is sad to say, an arena for the darker aspects of human nature.

It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves.

I said, "And then, when those all-American Joes get out and some of them fucking turn into monsters? What happens then?" Amy said, "Then we will once again err on the side of not letting people be murdered. You take the choice in front of you, and then you keep picking the non-murder choices as long as you can.

he thought that human beings are, by and large, rather nasty. They can rarely be bothered to help one another, he noted, but are quick to seize any opportunity to do each other down.9 Moreover there was a bias in the world of which he had become acutely aware: most people were ignorant, and nothing provoked the hostility of the ignorant as much as people who knew more than they did.10 Although

In my most recent novel, The Eros Project, I have called this age–old habit of people of making war and preying upon each other simply the War. This use is close to what Hobbes identified as the war of all against all, which he thought to be the natural state of man.

Sartre said Hell is other people. I'd say Hell is other people's utopia.

Everyone has a capacity for cruelty. Not everyone gets the chance to exercise it.

I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

<...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

As humans, we get filled with jealousy, at times, and rage, and I am no exception. I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes.

There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

We hate the kindness which we understand.