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Human Nature Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
- ...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
- Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
- Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
- The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
- Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
- The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition…
- Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.
- A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim, drawn from the experience of…
- It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness…
- Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
- In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men…
- That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of…
- The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests…
- To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform…
- To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- This position will not be disputed, so long as it is admitted that the desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human…
- To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.
- These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.
- The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of…
- It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in… — James A. Baldwin
- In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I… — Alan Ball
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the… — Bernard Baruch
- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach