Quotes About Human nature

Hobbes encouraged a new interest in human nature and a belief that governments only have the right to rule through contract.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

even the finest examples of men and women are capable of horrific acts under the right circumstances,

One of the most interesting things I've discovered about human nature is how willing humans are to disbelieve evidence if it doesn't fit with their own personal beliefs and philosophies. Most people are not truly capable of believing in a doomsday scenario, simply because it's unthinkable to them.

Rome's earliest dissension arose from flawed human nature and its desires for freedom, glory, and power, but it was only after the fall of Carthage that such evils flourished to the point of driving plebeians and patricians into open conflict: "The way was clear for pursuing rivalries, [and] there arose a great many riots, insurrections, and in the end, civil wars."43

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?

Si no estás asustado -dijo-, no eres humano. Si actúas de otra manera, te voy a arrojar por el Acantilado porque eso querría decir que eres un enfermo.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

will you stay here? No. Will you go back? You can't. We must, therefore, go on. That's is our only hope. Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Poverty, sicknes, and death are evils; but the worst of all evils is unrequited love.

I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.

Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government.

Fully human and fully divine" is, to use a loaded word, a mystery. Something not to be solved, but to be pondered.

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I have experienced real horror. I have known true evil. Its name is human nature.

Mankind's moral sense is not a strong beacon light, radiating outward to illuminate in sharp outline all that it touches. It is, rather, a small candle flame, casting vague and multiple shadows, flickering and sputtering in the strong winds of power and passion, greed and ideology. But brought close to the heart and cupped in one's hands, it dispels the darkness and warms the soul.