One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
Jack LondonTest yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
Franz KafkaNo man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. MenckenPublic behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen CoveyOur desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert HubbardHumans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.
Noam ChomskyWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee WilliamsOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyNo evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIsn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuIt 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.
Blaise PascalMan is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand RussellJudas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
Mr. TThe flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
Joyce MeyerYou just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘
RihannaShall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the GreatThat all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Aldous HuxleyMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul SartreI feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Dolly PartonI hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
Brian EnoIsrael is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.
Noam ChomskyWe’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy GrahamWhat 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.
William ShakespeareThe greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander PopeWhat is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David ThoreauThe fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph AddisonMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonHatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSo far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel JohnsonSurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliOne 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.
Christopher HitchensI have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel JohnsonWhat is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
James MadisonMan is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. MenckenIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam ChomskyWars based on principle are far more destructive… the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan WattsHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis BaconThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellFriendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph AddisonOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George OrwellCapitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard ShawTo God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
HeraclitusIt’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.
Jordan PetersonPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper LeeOne thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be somewhere else. That doesn’t work for me. We have sent robotic probes now to every place in the solar system, and this is the best one.
Jeff BezosLot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
Kurt VonnegutThere is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
ChanakyaThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheRadical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.
Noam ChomskySlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnIf man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Blaise PascalPeople have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
Francis BaconMen are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Blaise PascalWe humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.
Robert GreeneA wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles DickensThe level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam ChomskyMan has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer