Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I'm curious about what makes people do things that they do, unless it's absolutely terrifying to me.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

If you tell kids they can't have something, that's what they want.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

Human nature fascinates me.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

When you stop people from doing certain things, there is a good chance that they will do exactly what they have been told to abjure. That is how human nature is.

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

Human behavior is timeless.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.