2,272 Quotes About Human-nature

I sometimes wonder how many beautiful black sweaters have been knit from my wool.

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 brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

It was the yearning she related to. Shriver seemed to understand the specific human pain of wanting and pushing away at the same time. It left her with a gorgeous ache, and when she turned the last page of the book and closed the cover, Norah's connection to the writer felt absolute. It was a breathless, consuming rapture....

Lentrong Giap: We are both bound for Hell, Colonel Fury.But I hope you find a comfortable place to wait.

His heart beat high for war and he blazed with an implacable fire which needed no kindling.

To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier - who made you so but God?

We are haltingly, tentatively breaking the shackles of the earth ... but our energies are directed far more toward war. Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much. But what we do not consider we are unlikely to put right.