112 Quotes About Misanthropy

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,The prurient ape's defiling touch:And do you like the human race?No, not much.

Misanthropes have some admirable - if paradoxical - virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial. “ships that pass in the night.” As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Marry an outdoors woman. That way, if you have to throw her out into the yard for the night, she can still survive.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?"Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

A sour view of things, I grant you; but one borne out by the history of our age and of the age to come, when Trinity--not the Christians' but Oppenheimer's--will turn Alamogordo sand to glass. In the future, dead cities will molder behind rusting thorns no prince can ever penetrate; dirty bombs will engender tribes of lepers--not by germs, but by deadly atoms; and radioactive isotopes will be left to cool for an age or more, sealed in burial chambers with a pharaoh's curse.

I swear, you are frightening me!" said Dantes. "Is the world full of tigers and crocodiles then?""Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

The perverse, obtuse, wicked biped race

Yes, I do read books but only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and to hold him in contempt.