#human nature

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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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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There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport. ↗

— David Millar

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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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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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' ↗

— Laura Riding

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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