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Quotes about human nature
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. (Sheen Martin)
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful. (Sheen Martin)
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. (Sheen Martin)
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. (Sheen Martin)
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. (Sheen Martin)
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! (Sheen Martin)
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. (Sheen Martin)
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. (Sheen Martin)
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify -- so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. (Sheen Martin)
We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. (Sheen Martin)
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature. (Sheen Martin)
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names. (Sheen Martin)
Human nature is not of itself vicious. (Sheen Martin)
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. (Sheen Martin)
There is a great deal of human nature in people. (Sheen Martin)
It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside. (Sheen Martin)
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. (Sheen Martin)
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it. (Sheen Martin)
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. (Sheen Martin)
Cleaning is the best thing for the human mind and body. Seeing all the dirt being sucked up is an instant gratification! (Sheen Martin)
“I think that basically we're putting a heart and a humanity into hard-core politics. We're saying that you can be a human being and be a public servant. You can be honest and you can be forthright, you can have credibility and you can be heartfelt.” (Sheen Martin)
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