Human Quotes

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

Nature is not human hearted.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

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

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

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.