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"Human Nature" Quotes

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

― Winston Churchill

"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."

― Mother Teresa

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

― Mother Teresa

"People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway."

― Mother Teresa

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

"What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout."

― Rumi

"Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything."

― Rumi

"It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."

"There is no fire like passion. There is no shark like hatred. There is no snare like folly. There is no torrent like greed."

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."

― Sigmund Freud

"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities."

― Sigmund Freud

"In the depths of my heart, I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."

― Sigmund Freud

"We are what we are because we have been what we have been."

― Sigmund Freud

"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."

― Sigmund Freud

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”"

― Sigmund Freud

"One thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."

― Sigmund Freud

"Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."

― Sigmund Freud

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

― Sigmund Freud

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole."

― Sigmund Freud