Believe Quote by Bernard de Mandeville

“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth.…

— G.K. Chesterton

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of…

— Charles Darwin

What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts have been…

— Georg Brandes

“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or…

— Jack London

“Unless, as human beings, we come not only to accept but to openly rejoice in our fundamental and inescapable nature as predators, we condemn…

— L. Neil Smith

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

— George Bernard Shaw

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever,…

— Samuel Johnson

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

— Herodotus

Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we…

— Esther Smith

“Humans, I finally decided after a few more minutes of watching him, are paradoxically capable of both unattainable depths of kindness and unimaginable depths…

— Kiley MacLeod

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

— Jonathan Swift

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately…

— Jack London