Quotes About Human nature

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

It's just human, or inhuman, nature: People will find a way to make a big deal out of their differences-the smaller, the better. It reminded me of the Mantagues and the Capulets (if I wanted to think highbrow), or the Hatfields and the McCoys (if I wanted to go lowbrow)...or the Jets and the Sharks (if I happened to feel musical).

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

Di dunia ini, ada orang yang memang jahat, dan kadang-kadang mereka akan tetap jahat.

A person is okay," he said, peering into the darkness and the open street. "But when you put a bunch of us together, something is switched on, something ugly." He glanced at her apologetically. "All of us, humans and nonhumans alike, are genetically primed to attack what's different from the collective.

Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible to believe, as apparently you did, that when fear and want went away, bad deeds would too. Humanity would be revealed as some kind of bonobo, an altruistic cooperator, a lover of all.

I don't think you can get good answers to questions about—human nature. Better to think of it as a black box. You can't apply the scientific method. Not well enough to be sure of your answers.

No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.

Usred dvorane za zabave možeš ostati ravnodušan, siguran i neponesen opštim raspoloženjem. Jer je sopstvena duša ?ovekova izvor tuge i radosti.

Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

People feel the need to choose sides when a relationship splits - it's human nature.

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.

Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.