Human Nature Quotes

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

~ Phyllis Schlafly

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

~ Stephen Hawking

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

~ Margaret Mead

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

~ Xun Kuang

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

~ John Keats

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

~ Alexander Hamilton

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

~ William James

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

~ Ernest Renan

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

~ Hjalmar Branting

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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

~ Evangeline Lilly

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

~ Noam Chomsky

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

~ Alexander Hamilton

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

~ Taylor Caldwell

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

~ Samuel Johnson

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

~ David Hackworth

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

~ Elvis Presley

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

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

~ Edward Thorndike

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

~ John Keats

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

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

~ William James

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

~ Denis Diderot

Human nature is above all things lazy.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

~ Herbert Spencer

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

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

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

~ Jane Smiley

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

~ Tacitus

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

~ Robinson Jeffers

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

~ Mason Cooley

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

~ Richard Thompson

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

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.

~ José 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