Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.

One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments.... It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

One of the most secure markets in the world is human nature, few understand it, all have it.

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.

It's human nature to always look at what your neighbor is doing.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.