Josh Trank Quotes

The older I got, I started to realize more it's not necessarily that any of us are inherently bad or good; you just kind of carve your own way, and you are your experiences and your surroundings and what you grow up in.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

In soft regions are born soft men.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Man is a child of his environment.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Nobody is born evil.

I think all of us are shaped by the choices we make.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

I have always thought that humanity was animal-like. The Confucian theory was man could be improved, but I'm not sure he can be. He can be trained; he can be disciplined.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.