Human Nature Quotes

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "We are natural learners. Learning is our default state." "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness" "The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument" "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character" "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Once you label me you negate me." "The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone" "The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life" "Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion"