Human Nature Quotes - Page 12

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our ability to find the truth that has been a survival tool for our species both individually and corporately.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?"

"You said it."

"You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?"

"Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.

There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

When loving with human love one may pass from love to hatred, but divine love cannot change.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

in these shitty plastic days ...

Because human nature never changes.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.