Quotes about Human nature
The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.
— Joyce Meyer
Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
— Thomas Jefferson
Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?
— John Lennon
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.
— Stephen Colbert
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
— David Brainerd
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
— William Faulkner
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
— William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
— William Golding
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
— William Hazlitt
Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.
— William Lane Craig