888 quotes found
“Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.”
“With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and m...”
“If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, inter changeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would ...”
“The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made eve...”
“I say this because as an older man I am prone to ponder matters in the light of death in a way that you are not. I am like a traveler from Mars who looks down in astonishment at what passes here. A...”
“Respect can be offered and is deserved by a homeless man and so by a president.”
“The poor serve the elite, and they have too much fear to stop. So the poor get poorer, and the elite stay safe and powerful.”
“Man is a vile creature!”
“From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look ...”
“You don't ever know what anyone's really like,' I said'Cause you do.''How?''They tell you; you tell them.''That's assuming you're honest. What if you lie?''Why would you want to lie?”
“When nobody takes a responsibility it's yours.”
“Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.”
“Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems”
“Humans are one, not divided, but multiplied into many.”
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.”
“The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.”
“One needs to be beyond love and above humanity to wield power, or so I sometimes think.”
“There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.”
“Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.”
“The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.”
