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“Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.”
“I like my fellow man, but I also realize he carried a good measure of the Old Nick in him and he can find a good excuse for almost any kind of wrongdoing or mischief.”
“Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing.”
“A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.”
“Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.”
“On his misfit globe he has outlasted the mammoth and the pterodactyl, but he has never got the upper hand of bacteria and the insects.”
“When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection... he has lost his way.”
“Zoltn looked at them through the window. He hated the man. Now he hated work. Work for these? Work with these? He saw before him the great puszta. Here the long, cracked stripe of a ditch once agai...”
“What a nightmare!" cried Imtaz. "There's nothing gloomier than nature. You'll lose your sense of humor in the country. Unable to criticize the trees, your intelligence will lose its edge as you con...”
“Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.”
“It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. The...”
“It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.”
“He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.”
“Ponder upon the many misgivings of man and you shall be eternally in the state of pondering. -”
“Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each other; all the same species and think of all the excuses for war they've used! It hasn't had to be ...”
“...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...”
“All mankind love a lover.”
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
“Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.”
