Quotes About Human nature

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.

Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.

Humans are merely just animals Which are programmed to behave Appropriately according to their age

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.—Mark Twain

What makes us human is so simple. What we choose to do with it is so complex.

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And

Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does.

Do que de uma feita, por me valer, eu entendi o casco de uma coisa. Que, quando eu estava assim, cada de-manhã, com raiva de uma pessoa, bastava eu mudar querendo pensar em outra, para passar a ter raiva dessa outra, também, igualzinho, soflagrante.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

War within ourselves is always a prelude to war outside ourselves. All war starts within our own hearts. When our egos are inflated or our desires insatiable, we go to war with the other for the sad joy of maintaining our one-dimensional worlds.

There is evidence from evolutionary biology, sociology, neuroscience, and many other fields that we need to abandon our old misanthropic (and misogynist) notions for a sweeping new view of human nature.

It's strange, isn't it, how we can push people away because we want to be near them? Isn't that the silliest thing?

People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

There aren't many good things don't have a splinter of selfishness in them somewhere, after all.

Dostoyevsky knew a lot but not everything. He, for instance, thought that if you kill a human you'll turn into Raskolnikov. But we know now that one can kill five - ten, one hundred people - and go to the theatre in the evening.

Love, it seemed, made beasts of men. How wise he'd been to avoid it all these years.

The founders themselves were not so certain: their beloved classical authors taught them that history was circular, that human nature was flawed, and that special measures were needed to prevent democracy from sliding back into tyranny.

The more we are able to understand how different societies have transformed their neighbors and fellow citizens from people into objects, the more we know of the specific circumstances which led to each episode of mass torture and mass murder, the better we will understand the darker side of our own human nature.