Human Nature Quotes - Page 18

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.

If you live in an acquisitive society you are likely to be acquisitive, but it isn't deeply rooted in human nature, except in the sense that it's deeply rooted to be psychologically receptive to your peers and to advertising.

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.

Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

Christ is God clothed with human nature.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Filmmakers tell stories to explore human nature, which is always a flawed thing.

The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.