Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!. Emma Goldman
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Oscar Wilde
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. Francis Bacon
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed. Abraham Lincoln
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. A A Milne
It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature. William Feather
Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art. Virginia Woolf
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Brooks Adams
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Nathaniel Hawthorne