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Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

But human nature is not to be totally changed even by such a force as the Reformation.

All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.