Universal Human Nature Quotes

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

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

Mende people do well, but not all. Some bad people, same as here.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.