Human Nature Quotes - Page 6

There is only one sin, only one, and that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right of a husband, you rob his children of a father. When you lie you steal someone's right to truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no more wretched act than stealing. A man who takes what is not his to take, be it life or a loaf of naan, I spit on such a man. And if I ever cross paths with him, God help him.

Khaled Hosseini

I am sure when Cinderella went to that ball, she took a great deal more pleasure in outsmarting her stepmother than in the carriage and the ball dress and the glass slippers.

Gita V. Reddy

sometimes the human race likes to crank things up a little. They increase the production of bodies and their escaping souls.

Markus Zusak

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.

Ian McEwan

I learned many things about human nature, but one of the greatest is the nobility inherent within us all, for one of the greatest things about being human is the ability to be humane

Sara Niles

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?

Charlyn Khater

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...

Taimoor Madni

Nobody sane loves working in an office, It’s against human nature to be locked up in a cubicle all day long.

Peter Clines

Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

Gene Cernan

Holly girl, you are all too human, I can assure you. Prickly and awkward and human, because that's what witches are - human, that is, not necessarily the prickly and annoying bit. That's just you.

J.S. Watts

Should a traveler, returning from a far country, bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted, men who were entirely divested of avarice, ambition, or revenge, who knew no pleasure but friendship, generosity, and public spirit, we should immediately, from these circumstances, detect the falsehood and prove him a liar with the same certainty as if he had stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons, miracles and prodigies.

David Hume

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

Christopher Buehlman

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

Mohammad Azeem

Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.

David Anthony Durham

I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Adib Khan

If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, it’s because the intensity of such caring doesn’t exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective shield. I’m incapable of opening up to people in the way she does. Ma isn’t afraid of being vulnerable and doesn’t measure relationships in terms of what she can gain. If her feelings are hurt, she doesn’t hide the pain or seek revenge. She stumbles over the setback as though it’s one of life’s quirky tests of fortitude and moves on without storing any resentment.

Adib Khan

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Piers Anthony

If you write anything with using same color of ink on same colors page.Then don't blame eyes for not able to read.

Yaganesh Derasari

That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do it, of course, it's just fun to think about.'And then, as though in trances, the people would really do it-have slaves fight each other to the death in the Colosseum, or burn people to death in the public square for holding opinions which were locally unpopular, or build factories whose only purpose was to kill people in indistrial quantities, or to blow up whole cities, and on and on.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.

Mark Allen Smith

Is it not strange how humans will resort to the most inhumane of actions as the first plausible solution? Why are we such a feral bloodthirsty species when we are supposedly the enlightened ones? Are we guardians... or just mindless butchers?

Dimitri Zaik

Don't be so proud for being educated then other,you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets

Yaganesh Derasari

This attitude is basic human nature. We'd rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

Amish Tripathi

People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose...?

Yaganesh Derasari

Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast?

Diane Ackerman

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Brandon Sanderson

It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.

Isaac Asimov

I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. I hated that. Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.So I renamed myself Ari.If I switched the letter, my name was Air.I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Marquis de Sade

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Glen Duncan

People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

Glen Duncan

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions

Thomas More

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

Madeleine L'Engle

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

Steven Pinker

I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama

Julia DeBarrioz

Even logic and conversation are really just forms of trading, and as in all things, humans will always try to seek their own best advantage, to seek the greatest profit they can from the exchange.

David Graeber

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Tim Kreider

Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

James S.A. Corey

He fashioned an empire of sorts, bereft of cities yet plagued with the endless dramas of society, its pathetic victories and inevitable failures. The community of enslaved Imass thrived in this quagmire of pettiness. They even managed to convince themselves that they possessed freedom, a will of their own that could shape destiny. They elected champions. They tore down their champions once failure draped its shroud over them. They ran in endless circles and called it growth, emergence, knowledge. While over them all, a presence invisible to their eyes, Raest flexed his will. His greatest joy came when his slaves proclaimed him god – though they knew him not – and constructed temples to serve him and organized priesthoods whose activities mimicked Raest’s tyranny with such cosmic irony that the Jaghut could only shake his head.

Steven Erikson

Shut up!Leave him alone! He cant understand. He cant help what he is ... but for God's sake, have some respect! He's a human being!

Daniel Keyes

And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may well be that it was not a very exceptional one. There must have been many men who have had a good deal of the dog or the fox, of the fish or the serpent in them without experiencing any extraordinary difficulties on that account. In such cases, the man and the fish lived on together and neither did the other any harm. The one even helped the other. Many a man indeed has carried this condition to such enviable lengths that he has owed his happiness more to the fox or the ape in him than the man.

Hermann Hesse

[…] without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she’s dancing and she’s bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows.

Milan Kundera

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Be A Colorful Person Not A Chameleon.

Yaganesh Derasari

Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.

Eraldo Banovac

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Emily Brontë

We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated — we are all meant to love and be loved.

Auliq-Ice

Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us.

Isaac Asimov

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

Radclyffe Hall

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

Don DeLillo

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Niall Williams

It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.

Clifford D. Simak

Because you learn things when you talk to people, especially people who aren't like you. You learn what a goddamned polyglot race we are, we marvelous human beings. Some people are friendly. Some people are gruff. Some want security. Others want independence. Some want the government to run things. Some want to run things on their own. Some people need a helping hand. Some people need a kick in the pants. Some want to live and to die in the same small town. Some want to ramble the wide world. Some are content with little. Some cannot stop striving. Some want to life beside a true love, to worship a single god. Some crave a universe of loves, a universe of gods. I could go on and on. The differences between them, between me and you, between you and the woman sitting next to you at the hairdresser, wearing that dress you'd never wear in a million years, reading that book you wouldn't touch. The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all, to represent them all. Not just the ones you agree with, the ones that think and act like you do.

Beatriz Williams

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Monica Furlong

In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.

William Crawford Gorgas

One of the biggest differences between humans and trees is simply that humans burn trees.

M. Jackson

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

Albert Camus

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