Human nature Quotes

"Communism is in conflict with human nature."

Ernest Renan

"Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature."

Hjalmar Branting

"If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?"

Evangeline Lilly

"Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger."

Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."

Laurence Sterne

"Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be."

Abraham Maslow

"Envy is human nature."

Monica Bellucci

"I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process."

Tom Stoppard

"Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds."

George Mason

"A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression."

Mo Yan

"Law is born from despair of human nature."

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The longer you remain silent, the longer you don't turn over documents, a presumption begins to build that you're withholding something. That's human nature. That may not be a legal presumption, but that's a common sense presumption."

Trey Gowdy

"Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink."

Ephraim Mirvis

"You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos."

Rudolf Steiner