2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

Знам, че всеки има право на изкупление. Всеки заслужава да му бъде простено, независимо какво е направил. Но ако деянието ти не е просто грешно? Ако е зло? Може ли да ти бъде простено, ако ти самият си зло?

I'm the type of person who will google the definition of the stranger before talking to one.

The search for a policy to overcome original sin is not a coherent political project.

A person lives one way and he thinks all people live that way because there is no other way

But in the end, someone always has to have his or her neck popped, as you so quaintly put it. The people demand it, sooner or later, if there isn't a turncoat, the people make one.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. (...) It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes parish desire the downfall of parish. Each seeks peace of mind and subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, races or creeds, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.

How resistant we are to the logic, and to all the evidence, that those who delight to tattle with us about others, will tattle delightedly with others about us.

So treibt das Bedürfnis der Gesellschaft, aus der Leere und Monotonie des eigenen Innern entsprungen, die Menschen zueinander; aber ihre vielen widerwärtigen Eigenschaften und unerträglichen Fehler stoßen sie wieder voneinander ab.