Human Nature Quotes - Page 8

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Introspection is always retrospection

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

The belly comes before the soul.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

We aren't really the victims. After all, we created the system ourselves and as long as we keep consuming, it will continue to exist. Ultimately, capitalism only mirrors human nature.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.