Human Nature Quotes

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness" "The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?" "Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?" "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" "It is [the] certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel." "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease" "Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don’t have all the answers to think that they do" "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite" "The only way of knowing a person is by loving them without hope" "The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope" "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best" "Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them" "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." "Once you label me you negate me." "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character"