No passion is stronger in the breast of a 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...

Rotten people will taste rotten ice cream.

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

This attitude is basic human nature. We’d rather look outward and blame others for ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.

If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

When a man is an upright contender, only real people are bound to be around; but if he is a downright pretender, then fake people surround and always abound to be found.

As human beings we want to be as comfortable as possible, that’s human nature and when you do that you live a really really boring life.

It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.

Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

She’s not quite making sense, but no one does all the time.

The answer is not relevant to the knowledge of an inquiring mind.

I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet

Doesn’t there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or – not to violate logic – some best good … which is more important and...

I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the relation it establishes between the individual and society. Moreover, I am certain...

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many...

…men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That’s part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it’s always potent stuff, and dangerous.

Things to know from books to read

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something–something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the...

… the love of money is the root of all evils.” – John de Alençon, Pg, 64

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old stupid story – we aren’t enlightened. We disagree, fall in love, and hate eachother, the whole spectrum of human experience. We have differences of...

I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with...

A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others…thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people’s rights, each...

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet...

If a quote of two individuals looks identical or almost similar to make it difficult to know as who said it first to be Mr. Right, then it is perhaps sensible to give credit for...

Aber ich gestehe, ein wenig gefiel es mir doch, daß man mich für eine so hohe Persönlichkeit hielt.

…a man’s blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own...

I’m afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

You don’t have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it’s the part of humanity.

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

How does evil arise? Where does it come from? We think of malevolent men-— murderers, rapists, tyrants—and somehow believe they are different creatures from us. They are not. All evil men were once innocent babes,...

Adults make mistakes too.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

But you have to admit it is human nature to only really appreciate something if you’ve worked for it, or if you know you can lose it. How are you going to make the inhabitants...

-,Qué es ser hombre, para vos?–Es muchas cosas, pero para mí… bueno, lo más lindo del hombre es eso, ser lindo, fuerte, pero sin hacer alharaca de fuerza, y que va avanzando seguro. Que camine...

You can’t change laws without first changing human nature… You can’t change human nature without first changing the law.