30,129 Quotes About Men

  • Author Ernest Becker
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    Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

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  • Author Erma Bombeck
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    I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

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  • Author Ernest Becker
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    What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

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  • Author Erma Bombeck
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    I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

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