#human nature

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#human nature #middle #nature #stand #thing

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#beings #human #human beings #human nature #include

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#disappointed #found #gave #got #human

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

Human nature is above all things lazy. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#all things #human #human nature #lazy #nature

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. ↗

— Xun Zi

#good #human #human nature #i #nature

In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature. ↗

— Alexander Walker

#better #cooper #days #etc #film

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#deepest #desire #fraternity #however #human

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die. ↗

— Xun Zi

#defer #die #each #follow #human