Human Nature Quotes

"There are only two kinds of men; the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous" "People are always far more interested in themselves than in anyone else. Your book will most probably interest them if it helps them see themselves in a new light" "You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him bananas after death in monkey heaven" "A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous." "Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." "Why everything that's supposed to be bad make me feel so good" "You can't really know somebody and love them at the same time" "The nature of man is evil; his goodness is only acquired training. " "A person is born with desires. If those desires are not satisfied, he will seek to satisfy them." "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse" "Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit" "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection." "Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness." "In the face of pain there are no heroes." "Sanity is not statistical." "The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better." "There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic" "Many a truth is said in jest"