7 Joseph Conrad Quotes on Human nature

Joseph Conrad quotes on human nature

18. It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate awaiting them on this earth.

60. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

65. A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

66. Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

67. The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

68. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

71. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.