Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He’s paid the ultimate price for us, so I’m proud to be a child of God.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.