Quotes About Human nature

Alexander Hamilton and John Adams] wanted to build democracy in America on the basis of rational debate, reason, and compromise. But they had no illusions about human nature: They knew that men could sometimes succumb to "passions," to use their old-fashioned word. They knew that any political system built on logic and rationality was always at risk from an outburst of the irrational.

Maybe it was human nature to want to please the person who rejects you, who wants you to prove you deserve to be loved. Maybe.

Humans were like sticky vines. If you didn't escape at the first touch, you got more and more tangled up.

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her. When dealing with humans, honesty isn't always the best policy , Vlad thought

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

What interests me is what dogs bring out in people, mirroring humanity's best and worst.

Love does not make me gentle or kind.

Once I would not have believed this, but now I understand too well that there is in all of us, even the most pacific and composed, an enormous capacity for rage, asleep maybe but present nonetheless, waiting for the single thing that will uncage it. A

ALL OF US are afraid sometimes, that's human. When our life is ruled by fear, that's obsession.

She invites us to smile at the quirks of human nature, not at simple virtue.

The reason to do any barking - well, the reason for me - is that 'Three Billboards' feels so off about so many things. It's one of those movies that really do think they're saying something profound about human nature and injustice.

Hollywood is an image. We project these fantasies on to it, but people are just people.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.

everybody loves himself more than his neighbor.

What's strange in that? Have you only just discovered That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor?

Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.

Well, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to hate him and his saints they have to find something like themselves and pretend it's God and hate that. I suppose you think that's all bosh.

To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.

You'll understand why storms are named after people.