Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Hatred is settled anger.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

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

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

No sane man will dance.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Thought is the parent of the deed.