Human-nature Quotes

If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of ...

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that...

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no anim...

Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff al...

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal...

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every...

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the a...

Ginny Cupper took me in her car out to the spread fields of Indiana. Parking near the edge of woods ...

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be...

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

You may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it!

Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common fa...

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captur...

Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, whic...

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve eno...

You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious...

One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such fre...

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean when you think about it jet travel is ...

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, hum...

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.

schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf / denn zum wurdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen d...

It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in orde...

Man has one name, and many more than two natures. But the essential two are these: that he shall str...

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth...

Frost interviewing Noel Coward and Margaret Mead. Sir Noel's view of life is Sir Noel. Mead's mind i...

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

He had drawn a derogatory statement from George. He felt safe now.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the...

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians b...

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly...

Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their ava...

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed f...

Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the ...

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patien...

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of y...

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that ...

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last cent...

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of al...

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon...

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. T...

The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the ...

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no...

The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-...

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats othe...

There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When yo...

I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, c...

Human nature is the same in all professions.

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, pu...

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of t...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual...

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it ...

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield

The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll...

we’re all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can’t tell which is which

Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation,' sa...

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...