637 quotes found
“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another r...”
“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one...”
“Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.”
“Maybe human beings are programmed to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from,...”
“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
“Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.”
“We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.”
“But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.”
“Funny how addiction was socially acceptableeven a status symbolwhen it made people extroverts rather than introverts”
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find th...”
“People are like the waves, all similar, none the same”
“Bizim hepimizin iinde zbklk olmasa, bizler de birer zbk olmasak, aramzdan byle zbkler byyemezdi. Hepimizde birer para olan zbklk birleip ite bamza byle zbkler kyor. Oysa zbklk bizde, bizim iimizde....”
“We judge us by our names.”
“They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwas...”
“It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Viol...”
“Against the claims of a violent "human nature" there is enormous historical evidence that people, when free of a manufactured nationalist or religious hysteria, are more inclined to be compassionat...”
“And because the condition of man . . . is a condition of war of every one against every one, in which case every one is governed by his own reason, and there is nothing he can make use of that may ...”
“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
“If there is no any patience, forbearance and forgiveness. Then there is no peace.”
