888 quotes found
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the trave...”
“Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.”
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic ...”
“I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.”
“How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the ...”
“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us become aware of how we are being exploited by the economic engine that creates an insatiable...”
“We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of t...”
“There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.”
“It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.”
“Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid.Penny...”
“Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got”
“I believe in people getting what's coming to them but don't hold grudges either. We all hurt people, fail & hopefully grow from adversity. Basically, eat shit & thrive”
“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”
“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”
“Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you t...”
“The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.”
“We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.”
“That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
“Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.”
