Quotes about Human nature
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
— Oscar Wilde
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
— Samuel Johnson
Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
— Alexander Hamilton
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
— Charles Spurgeon
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
— George Eliot
Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.
— Francis de Sales
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
— George Whitefield
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
— Confucius
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
— St. John Chrysostom
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.