Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Human Nature Quotes
CrueltyHuman NatureViolence The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
CapitalismEconomicsGreedHuman NatureRationality While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
ControlHuman NaturePower Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
CreationEffortHuman NatureProblem SolvingProcess Balance Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.
ExperienceHuman NatureLearningWisdom We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
DeceptionHuman NatureManipulationRelationshipsSocial Behavior I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
ErrorFatigueHuman NatureSocietyStruggle The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
CrimeHuman NatureJusticePunishment For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
ControlDeterminismFree WillHuman NatureInfluence The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
EvilHuman NatureRestlessness I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
CreationHuman NatureImaginationMythologyUnderstanding We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
BeautyDivinityGoodnessHuman NatureJustice To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
DualityHuman NaturePotentialPower I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
CreativityDeterminismHuman NatureLiteraturePsychology It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.
Human NatureSelf-Perception If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
Human NatureMemoryReflectionResponsibilityValue of Money Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
Human NatureIndividualityRoutineSocietyWork Life Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
ConflictEthicsGlobal PoliticsHuman NatureMorality 'Sicario' is about how the Western world reacts toward problems outside of its borders. Should we become monsters in order to fight the monsters? It's not about the cartels. The movie could have been set in Africa or the Middle East.
Good vs EvilHuman NatureInner DarknessUniversal Truth In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
ExistenceHuman NatureInseparabilityPhilosophyVirtues and Failings Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
ComparisonDesireHappinessHuman Nature Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
ConsequenceCynicismDependenceHuman NatureRealism Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
