Human Nature Quotes

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most " "Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions." "Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored." "Everyone is a potential murderer—in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill." "Every one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desires and attitudes." "The sun also shines on the wicked" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness" "Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain" "What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?" "I was afraid of looking into the people's faces, their eyes were so sharp and burning. Their glances were unlike the glances of ordinary people" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings" "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" "O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." "We know what we are, but know not what we may be." "As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask" "Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve" "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"