Nature of man Quote by Konrad Lorenz

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

— Robert Winston

When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical…

— Wendell Berry

I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature,…

— Dalai Lama

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

— Sigmund Freud

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short,…

— Dalai Lama

Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter…

— Robert Greene

“We generally describe the most repulsive examples of man's cruelty as brutal or bestial, implying that such behavior is characteristic of less highly developed…

— Hans Askenasy

My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the…

— Katherine Dunn

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

— Sigmund Freud

“The element of truth behind all this, which people are so ready to disavow, is that men are not gentle creatures who want to…

— Sigmund Freud

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

— Konrad Lorenz