Human Nature Quotes

"Human beings are the only animals who have to work" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so." "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "The whole world changes, but not you." "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws" "Only the dead have seen the end of war " "I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake." "Man serves the interests of no creature except himself." "Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness" "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe" "I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else" "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman" "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything." "We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love." "No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he will take no other counsel than his own" "We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings." "The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"