Human Nature Quotes

"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends" "There is no language without deceit" "Inside every man there are two wolves battling" "My friend, my friend, I was born doing reference work in sin, and born confessing it." "I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the least. It's so boring to be perfect." "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" "Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late" "I guess the truth is that people are good at heart until something breaks them and then they aren’t" "He that is angry at a fault will hate a man who has none" "Fear is such a strong passion that it compels all other natural affections and by consequence all resolutions" "People are bloody ignorant apes." "We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look" "A hard man is good to find." "The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another" "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior righteous indignation — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone" "Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth" "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"