#human nature

I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature. ↗

— Howard Lindsay

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I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. ↗

— Elvis Presley

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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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