Top 50 Quotes About Human Nature And War
#2. We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
William Golding
#3. In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.
Aberjhani
#4. There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man ...
Robert Frost
#5. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
Ruskin Bond
#6. Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Johan Huizinga
#7. Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because ... No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start war. War will never cease to exist ... reasons can be thought up after the fact ... Human nature pursues strife.
Masashi Kishimoto
#8. War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
Immanuel Kant
#9. Civil war brought many hardships to the cities, such as happen and will always happen as long as human nature is the same, although they may be more or less violent or take different forms, depending on the circumstances in each case.
Thucydides
#10. Every time the sky cries, it is because an angel has died ... Lucifer started a war in Heaven, and it persists even now. So if God cannot keep his angels under control, what makes you believe that he can keep humanity under control?
Lionel Suggs
#11. Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
Lesslie Newbigin
#12. In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
Thomas More
#13. What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. War is a part of human nature, and we Japanese are human. But we have never fought, we have certainly never built weapons of mass destruction, to convince the world of the rightness of an idea. It took America and its bastard twin, communism, to do that." He
Barry Eisler
#15. It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.
Claire Holden Rothman
#16. Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.
William Ellery Channing
#17. As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
Matthew Henry
#18. There are many ties that bind, and as many walls that divide. Music and madness. Love and unending time. Race and war. Strum weaves together each element into a larger human tapestry of light and shadow, where a combination of fate and decision can define a family's legacy.
Nancy Young
#19. On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began
that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. There is something about human nature that just doesn't want to face the reality that we live in two worlds. We live in the physical, material world where we have jobs, read books, and go about our business. And we live in a spiritual world - and that is a world at war.
John Eldredge
#21. Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
Joe Haldeman
#22. Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.
David Anthony Durham
#23. The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.
Ernst Haeckel
#24. We hear very often declarations on the demoralizing tendency of war, but as much as I hate war, I cannot be of the opinion that frequent wars are so corrupting to human nature as long peaces.
John Adams
#25. You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Robert Harris
#26. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Aberjhani
#27. War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#29. We tell the dead to rest in peace, when we should worry about the living to live in peace.
Anthony Liccione
#30. It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.
John Jay
#31. War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.
Angelina Jolie
#32. I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,
violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
#33. In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And we
have no right to do that - we never have had, not since the creation of the world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#34. The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
Robert Buettner
#35. War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
Richard Engel
#36. Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was.
William Golding
#37. The war cured me of all the "isms", he said. 'Nazism, communism, socialism, patriotism, nationalism, capitalism. I have seen them all. The problem is human nature. People. Shit always floats to the top.
Magda Szubanski
#38. With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.
Evan Thomas
#39. So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
Herman Melville
#40. When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
Phoenix Desmond
#41. I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.
Robert Greene
#42. Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
Voltaire
#43. Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. It's an atavistic thing, buried deep in our DNA.
Richard Engel
#44. On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#47. Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
Martin Cruz Smith
#48. Many of the seminal social issues of our time - poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse - can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature, purposes, and character of God.
Sarah Bessey
#49. There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
George R R Martin
#50. The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
Elihu Root
