Human Behavior Quotes

"The most important thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history " "Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others" "It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private" "The amount of erotic desire we feel has less to do with models of attractiveness and more to do with how willing we are to take risks." "We are more than hardwired instinct and passion." "Persuasion is often more effectual than force." "Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but only religion can make good people do bad things" "Retaliation is related to nature and instinct;" "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed and biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man" "Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants exactly what he is supposed to want" "The more cynical reason people give in to totalitarianism is that they can't stand the boredom of total liberty." "The fundamental reason why the rationalist argument fails is that it presupposes a pleasure which does not exist." "When a girl goes bad, men go right after her." "Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all " "The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters "