Quotes About Violent Human Nature

#1. This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.

Amit Ray

#3. You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Jan Hammer

#5. Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Paul Auster

#6. The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

E.W. Howe

#7. Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Albert Camus

#8. 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

#9. It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Jack Kornfield

#10. It is the ugliest aspect of human nature that we fear what is most different from ourselves with such violent contempt.

William Ritter

#11. Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Edmund Burke

#12. Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

William Blake

#13. Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature.

Dalai Lama

#14. Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Donald A. Wollheim

#15. The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this ...

William Wordsworth

#16. Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing.

George Meredith

#17. The party blundered helplessly across the sky like a man leaning against an unexpectedly open door. It spun and wobbled on its hover jets. It tried to right itself and wronged itself instead.

Douglas Adams

#18. There is nothing outside the text

Jacques Derrida

#19. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.

Sam Harris