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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that. -- Xun Zi
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures. -- Samuel Richardson
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil. -- Benjamin Haydon
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories! -- Alison Owen
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental. -- Lyle Lovett
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. -- Carroll Quigley
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. -- Jonas Gahr Store
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. -- Plato
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. -- Richard Le Gallienne
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. -- Elihu Root
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. -- Harry Browne
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality. -- Mary Matalin
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation. -- Jane Smiley
It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things. -- Bindi Irwin
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good. -- Dennis Prager
Human nature is disposed to do good. -- Mencius
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature. -- Francis Bacon
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. -- Alexander Pope
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace. -- John Calvin
The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature. -- David O. McKay
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. -- Charles Kingsley
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives. -- David O. McKay
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian. -- Benjamin Whichcote
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. -- William Wordsworth
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good. -- Mencius
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. -- Susan B. Anthony
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes. -- Plato
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. -- Mencius
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions. -- George Eliot

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