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When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?  (Human Nature Quotes) Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you  (Human Nature Quotes) Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality  (Human Nature Quotes) A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired  (Human Nature Quotes) There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest  (Human Nature Quotes) I always compare marriage to communism. They’re both institutions that don’t conform to human nature, so you’re going to end up with lying and hypocrisy  (Human Nature Quotes) In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these  (Human Nature Quotes) To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character  (Human Nature Quotes) We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals  (Human Nature Quotes) That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind  (Human Nature Quotes) It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?  (Human Nature Quotes) The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government  (Human Nature Quotes) To presume a want of motives for such contests... would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious  (Human Nature Quotes) These are not vague inferences... but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs  (Human Nature Quotes) Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence  (Human Nature Quotes) The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject  (Human Nature Quotes) Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!  (Human Nature Quotes) There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist  (Human Nature Quotes) Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature  (Human Nature Quotes) Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights  (Human Nature Quotes) It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species  (Human Nature Quotes) Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false  (Human Nature Quotes) Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man  (Human Nature Quotes) Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief in God. No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed  (Human Nature Quotes) The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music  (Human Nature Quotes) Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature  (Human Nature Quotes) Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal  (Human Nature Quotes) The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human  (Human Nature Quotes) Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened  (Human Nature Quotes) It’s human nature to quit when it hurts. But it’s that reflex that creates scarcity  (Human Nature Quotes)
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