Human Nature Quotes - Page 13

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Funny how addiction was socially acceptable - even a status symbol - when it made people extroverts rather than introverts

Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated-for good or ill-if only you find the right levers. ~ Levitt & Dubner, "Superfreakonomics

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

People have been bred to hate for generations - eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.

It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious
of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain
climbers.

Understand: I don't ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater...in all things, in all circumstances.

No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress.

While most things require money to invest in,
with efforts toward uncertain market shares maintained.
Friendship is something your heart invests in,
with priceless returns shared, in warm memory, remain.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled her for ballet classes, and sent her to horse-riding camp five summers in a row. But look at her. She turned into Lester anyway. She kisses Luisa’s forehead. Luisa frowns, suspiciously, like a teenager. “What?

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.

In other hand of the enemy will arise the fortune hero.

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.