Quotes about Human nature
As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.
— Albert Einstein
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
— Edmund Burke
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.
— GK Chesterton
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
— Herman Melville
If men were angels, there would be no need of government.
— James Madison
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— John Donne
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
— William Wilberforce