You can't change laws without first changing human nature.
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.
What we call human nature, is actually human habit.
Our lives teach us who we are.
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!
But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist. . . it was a great education in human nature.
Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
The evil is not that you cannot change human nature. The evil is that human nature cannot change you.
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.