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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my
experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.
- Sigmund Freud
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature
plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- Albert Einstein
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to
act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their
lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted
all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will
be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for
granted.
- Aldous Huxley
A foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man!
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable
that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
- W. Somerset Maugham
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're
doing is recording it.
- Art Buchwalb
Man is nature's sole mistake.
- W.S. Gilbert
Man - a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
- Alexander Hamilton
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence
will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
- Albert Camus
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in
the morning.
- Carl Sandburg
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that
it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson
I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It's us.
- Konrad Lorenz
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are, they must be using
the earth as their lunatic asylum.
- George Bernard Shaw
People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Such is the human race. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party didn't
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