James Madison Quotes

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Nobody is completely perfect.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

I'm totally human.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness….government in its best state is a necessary evil; in its worse state an intolerable one.

The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle.

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.