Quotes about Human nature
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
— Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
— Albert Camus
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
— Aldous Huxley
In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
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
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nature.
— Mother Angelica
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
— Reinhold Niebuhr