Human-nature Quotes

At some indeterminate point in their life cycles, they cause themselves to be placed in artificial s...

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody’s heel. You never lived where your enemies ...

I am not the first to suggest that anthropology arose in Western thought in an inauspicious period, ...

We are moved to respond to the fact of human brilliance, human depth in all its variety because it i...

The embrace of essential beastliness, made scientific and respectable by a reading of Darwin that ma...

Men are by nature wanderers...Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of th...

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the wor...

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a ...

I am only human, although I regret it.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play...

Human nature appears to be just the same, all over the world

I said it was a brutal thing."No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a m...

I said it was a brutal thing."No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a m...

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this ...

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and w...

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchan...

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weaknes...

I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their live...

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatur...

Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories ofconstrained and unconstrained (or ...

Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because t...

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to u...

Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life” is the king of words. The king...

[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. Whe...

There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse...

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and ...

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I ...

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

Because human nature never changes.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to a...

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ...

The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life....

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings...

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not loo...

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one qualit...

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for sp...

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' a...

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real poss...

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to...

...the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us. This doesn't mean that we...

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and ov...

While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned...

Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would wa...

Then the true name for religion,' Fat said, 'is death.''The secret name,' I agreed. 'You got it. Jes...

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about thei...

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and hal...

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

The human spirit is so utterly one with the body that the term "form" can be used of the body and re...

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. you must change man, not sy...

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and r...

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that...

The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and aff...

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its i...

Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we...

Happiness thinks only of itself.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free...

Everybody looked at Sully suspiciously. A rumor that he had burned up in the blaze had been circulat...

- You get more misanthropic every day.- I get older every day. My experience of human nature gets wi...

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible,...

Maybe man is nothing in particular,' Cross said gropingly. 'Maybe that's the terror of it. Man may b...

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE ...

The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from i...

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what ...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on betwe...

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every n...

Wake up! Be yourself, not a bad copy of something else!

You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A ma...

...I always took the rearmost seat in the classroom - it gave me a good view of things. And I must c...

-Would you wish us to invest it for you?-No, I would like you to set up a trust for dumb animals.-Wh...

Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, gol...