Quotes about Human nature

Where Christ does not reign men are wolves to men.

The human heart has so many recesses for vanity, so many lurking places for falsehood, is so shrouded by fraud and hypocrisy, that it often deceives itself.

Now God's image is the perfect excellence of human nature which shone in Adam before his defection, but was subsequently so vitiated and almost blotted out that nothing remains after the ruin except what is confused, mutilated, and disease-ridden. Therefore in some part it now is manifest in the elect, in so far as they have been reborn in the spirit; but it will attain its full splendor in heaven.

We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God's image bearer.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.