Quotes About Human nature

Never expect people to understand, respect or love you, they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

qué nos hace creer que otro ser humano puede arreglarnos o absolvernos de nuestros actos negativos, nuestros errores y nuestros defectos de carácter?

The news I read was so upsetting that it drove all else out of my mind. There was but one short line:   "According to reliable sources, new traces have been discovered of the elusive organization which aims at liberation from the beneficent yoke of the State."   "Liberation?" Amazing, the extent to which criminal instincts persist in human nature.

Não pense em se entender comigo. Não sei porque o ser humano se esforça tanto em se entender um com o outro. Mas lembre-se. Duas pessoas Jamais se entenderão por completo. Pois o ser humano... é um bicho triste assim.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

Ella no puede penetrar los profundos sentimientos de una canción como ésta; ni ver a través del muro de sombras de mi naturaleza de hombre el anhelo que a veces me hace llorar. Muy bien: entonces, en lo que a mí concierne, no es sino un cuerpo más.

Most fairy tales are warnings against human pride and cruelty. Purity always has its opposite…if humans had no impurities, they could never be considered pure. It's like you and me.

as human beings, no matter how many tears we have to shed in order to learn a lesson, the moment the tears are dry, we forget. That's the type of beings we are.

We are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality.

The truth is that truth was never high on the agenda of Homo sapiens.

Even if war is catastrophic for everyone, no god and no law of nature protect us from human stupidity.

St Paul and St Augustine knew perfectly well that if you asked people about it, most of them would prefer to have sex than pray to God.

People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction.

Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

Liberalism has a particularly confused notion of 'free will'. Humans obviously have a will, they have desires, and they are sometimes free to fulfil their desires. If by 'free will' you mean the freedom to do what you desire - then yes, humans have free will. But if by 'free will' you mean the freedom to choose what to desire - then no, humans have no free will.

We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon. Dramatic improvements in conditions, as humankind has experienced in recent decades, translate into greater expectations rather than greater contentment.

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don't tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

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

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

There is a story about a Cherokee grandfather who is teaching his grandson about life. He says to his grandson, "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil; he is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, and superiority. The other is good; he is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.