Quotes About Human nature

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first,

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting.

Except that they are people and people are never to be trusted,' said Nothing.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting. They

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .

There's always a little decency in the worst places . . . and always a little secret selfishness in the best.

But the thing about my granddad is . . . it's kind of hard to convince him people won't just do the right thing. You hate to say anything that sounds hostile or untrusting or small-hearted around him. You feel like he'd be disappointed in you.

It's easy to dismiss religion as bloody, cruel, and tribal. I've done it myself. But it isn't religion that's wired that way—it's man himself. At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency. Different textbooks in the same class.

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

Não existem atos que não sejam egoístas. Quando as pessoas fazem coisas para os outros, é sempre por causa dos seus próprios motivos psicológicos pessoais.

There's always a little decency in the worst places.... and always little secret selfishness in the best.

Pensando bem — disse ela —, a maioria das coisas boas surgiu para facilitar o pecado.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?" "No sir." "That bothers me.

All us humans are fouled on both ends. One we shit out of, and the other we talk shit out of.

Killing ain't no good thing, son, unless it's to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.

It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it creates enough space for men to commit terrible folly, from which the survivors learn through disaster.

But when you practice moving at a speed that is compatible with human nature—and you build that into your daily life—you begin to train your attention and focus. "That's why those disciplines make you smarter.

Mio caro, in questa banale faccenda ho nuovamente verificato che a questo mondo l'incomprensione e la pigrizia causano più errori dell'astuzia e della malvagità. O perlomeno, queste ultime sono di certo più rare.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

If you inquire what the people are like here,I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"

Human nature," I continued, "has its limitations. It can bear joy and suffering, and pain to a certain degree, but perishes when this point is passed. Here there can therefore be no question of whether a man is strong or weak, but of whether he can endure his suffering, be it moral or physical. And I find it just as astonishing to say that a man who takes his own life is a coward, as it would be improper to call a man a coward who dies of a pernicious fever.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent.