Human nature Quotes

"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look" "A hard man is good to find." "The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another" "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior righteous indignation — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." "Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." "Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them" "People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone" "Our nature is obscured by our ideas. We are infinitely rich, yet we keep looking at a room full of coins to measure our wealth" "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root" "Human beings are the only animals who have to work" "Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so" "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more so." "There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." "The whole world changes, but not you." "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"