2,158 Quotes About Humans

If people laugh at primates at the zoo, they do so, I suspect, precisely because they're unsettled by the mirror held up to them.

Being angry is not just being slightly feverish; it is confronting a world in which other people look more hostile and threatening than they normally would. Actions of others which would normally appear harmless now seem like attacks upon one. The angry person is shorter than usual on confidence and serenity, and more inclined for aggression. He easily believes himself to be wronged. And so on

Some people consider themselves a shade better because they do not support the wrong; however, they lack the conviction to oppose. They do not realize that by not opposing they are actually supporting.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

Death is liberating only if one has planned for it.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Nations are merely collections of people and like them can be vain, foolish, and violent.