Jane Addams Quotes

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him.

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

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.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

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