Quotes about Human nature

There are good men everywhere, at all times. Most men are. Some are just unlucky, because most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be. And I've known some that even the circumstances couldn't stop. ~from 'Delta Autumn

He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

I'm frightened. Of us.

I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

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The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.