2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?

Service alone is truth of the civilized society, all else is truth of the stone-age.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

You can dress up a chimpanzee in a fancy suit, but that doesn't turn the chimpanzee into a human, but if that chimp can share his meal with another hungry chimp, then that chimp is more human than all of the selfish humanity combined. Appearance doesn't make you human, your behavior does - your accountability does - your sense of community does.

Refuse the fundamental prejudice that we ought to be selfish in order to survive - we are not, for it may suit animals, not modern humans of modern society.

Normal human behavior is community, not self-obsession - normal human behavior is reasoning, not superstition - normal human behavior is warmth, not discrimination - normal human behavior means a plain ordinary decency towards every single human being on earth, not a suspicious condescension.

I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being. Others in becoming. Being people have all the breaks. Becoming people are very unlucky, always in a tizzy. The Becoming people are always having to make explanations or offer justifications of the Being people. While the Being people provoke these explanations.

Oh Human, 'Being' Kind Is Your Kind

In searching for myself, I have created myself.