Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

— George Orwell

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

— Natsuki Takaya

Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate…

— Aristotle

We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will…

— Philip Zimbardo

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the…

— Susan Glaspell

People are fundamentally good. But conditions deteriorate them.

— Shirin Ebadi

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and…

— Dennis Prager

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms…

— Matthieu Ricard

Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the change…

— David Lilienthal