It's a fair assumption that every human being...is a moral person. You know, we've got the same genes, we're more or less the same, but our nature, the nature of humans, allows all kinds of behaviour. I mean, every one of us under some circumstances could be a gas chamber attendant and a saint.
NOAM CHOMSKY, The Corporation (2003)
Human nature could certainly stand some improvement.
ELEANOR LANCE, The Haunting (1963)
I learned this about human nature when I was but so high, and that is: that the strong take away from the weak, and the smart take it away from the strong.
THE OKLAHOMA KID, The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
I can change almost anything... but I can't change human nature.
DR. MANHATTAN, Watchmen (2009)
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
A JEWISH BARBER, The Great Dictator (1940)
Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."
JENNIFER "J.J." JAREAU, Criminal Minds, "Cradle to Grave" (2009)
We suspected that an agreement with humans would prove impossible to maintain. You are erratic, conflicted, disorganized. Every decision is debated, every action questioned, every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.
7 OF 9, Star Trek: Voyager, "Scorpion (Part 2)" (1997)
Favorite pastime of man is fooling himself.
CHARLIE CHAN, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
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