Top 39 Violence Human Nature Quotes
#1. Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Steven Pinker
#2. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
Aberjhani
#3. Just as all writers were beginners once, so were all novels. They all went through rough stages, even the ones by our most hallowed masters.
Roz Morris
#4. In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence. Maybe people have a deep congenital awareness that no civilization lasts forever, that the most peaceful prosperity will someday have to end, or maybe it's just human nature
Jonathan Franzen
#5. 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
#6. They think they can buy a U-shaped shell, stuff it, and call it a taco, but those cafeteria workers wouldn't know taco meat from a piece of shit. That's what this tastes like,
Simone Elkeles
#7. It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
Dorothy Day
#8. Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
T.F. Hodge
#9. If we studied any other creature in nature and found the record of intra-species violence that human beings have, we would be repulsed by it. We'd view it as a great perversion of natural law - but we wouldn't deny it.
Gavin De Becker
#10. But there's food if you know how to find it. My father knew and he taught me some before he was blown to bits in a mine explosion. There was nothing even to bury. I was eleven then. Five years later, I still wake up screaming for him to run.
Suzanne Collins
#11. After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.
Questlove
#12. 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
#13. He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
Plutarch
#14. You're one tough egg to crack. You know that? You're like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.
Cassia Leo
#15. The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Adam Smith
#16. I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
Bill Gates
#17. I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.
Niels Arden Oplev
#19. Non-violence is more powerful than violence. Nature eliminates violent animals bit by bit.
Amit Ray
#20. If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can't have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God; pray without ceasing!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
Anthony De Mello
#22. With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
Steven Pinker
#23. If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.
Michael Jackson
#24. Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.
Abhijit Naskar
#25. I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Kim Ki-duk
#26. Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.
Gerard Way
#27. Violence is not the answer, it doesn't work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred ... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.
Martin Scorsese
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
George H. W. Bush
#31. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.
Dalai Lama XIV
#32. I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
Kiran Desai
#33. Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery
Trent Franks
#35. 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
#37. When all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation.
Christopher Hitchens
#39. I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz
