Human Nature Quotes

“The desire of being pleased is universal; the desire of pleasing is seldom found.”

“You can't save people from themselves. All you can do is stand by and watch them destroy themselves.”

“Tired people are not polite.”

“The human heart is a perpetual idol factory.”

“Every man is a force, but it's often a force for evil.”

“We begin by coveting what we see every day.”

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

“Psycho-analysis has taught us that the sublimest and the most obscene things have a common root.”

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.”

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation–purity's black backside!”

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”

“Catastrophe is the moment of truth. It's where the pretenses fall away.”

“Every man's heart has a window to hell.”

“The tendency of the multitude in all countries is to follow the track which others have beaten.”

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”

“An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.”

“There is no greater bore than a man with a grievance.”

“It is in the nature of the pig to be greedy, and in the nature of a man to be piggy.”

“A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”

“Power is the most interesting thing in the world.”