The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.
You can't change laws without first changing human nature.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.
Power in any Form. . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
I think that this necessity to travel, to see, it's part of human nature.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.