Human nature Quotes

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." "The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe" "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule" "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice" "Eventually, you're going to do a stupid thing." "Humanity, you never had it to begin with." "The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings" "Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself" "In his eyes, you could read complete innocence and sincerity" "We have a hunger in us, a hunger for simplicity" "Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice" "On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time" "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind" "What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards?" "Psychiatry is the study of man, by broken men."