Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Age, Human Nature, Found

• History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Historical, Essentials, Human Nature

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.66, Editions Le Mono

• No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, War, Hate

• We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strength, Nature, Character

  "Frederick the Great". Book by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, p. 90, 1842.

• What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Self, Humanity

• Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Mean, Diversity, Human Nature

• War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Hate, War, Fighting

• How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Assuming, Mystery

  "The Philosophy of Natural Theology". Book by William Jackson, 1874.

• It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Humanity, Mind, Weakness

  "Warren Hastings". Book by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1851.

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