81 quotes found
“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
“It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.”
“Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.”
“The more he saw, the more he doubted. He watched men narrowly, and saw how, beneath the surface, courage was often rashness; and prudence, cowardice; generosity, a clever piece of calculation; just...”
“Religion can only do two things for mankind turn them into monster or stupid.”
“Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for t...”
“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless a...”
“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
“A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity”
“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse...”
“Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.”
“He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.”
“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore;Our only portion is the estate of man: We want the moon, but we shall get no more. (Last Poems, IX)”
“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.”
“Everyone wants to save Man, but no one wants to know about men.”
“Zoltán 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 aga...”
“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 ...”
