Human Consistency Quotes

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.