Universal Behavior Quotes

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that this universal aspect of human nature persists no matter what economic system is in place; it merely expresses itself in different forms.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting.

While a lot of my day, like most people's, is spent thinking about me, I can see how it's a universal thing: the competition, the clashes of personality that fuel the world and fill the world, are the exact same ones that take place just between two people. I just think politics is a form, en masse, of human relations.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no.

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.