Human nature Quote by Alexander Hamilton Download Open image “Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.” — Alexander Hamilton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human nature Mankind May Nature of man Passion Vicious
Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Though there may be people in your life that support you and encourage you we have to realize that people are only human, and… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I wasn't sure which I appreciated less—the insincere concern or the genuine indifference.” — Arthur Graham Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
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