Human Nature Quotes

"Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man" "The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is" "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." "Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun." "With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a varnish of conventionalities hiding his barbaric core" "We are all ready to be savage in some cause" "Let men see what they want to see." "In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity" "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." "You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it." "The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living and a hope by their industry to obtain them" "During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe they are in that condition which is called war and such a war as is of every man against every man" "The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature." "Human nature is the same in all professions." "Every wise, just, and fortunate man that once existed, first possessed the principle of truth within his breast." "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." "If men were angels no government would be necessary" "We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion"