Douglas Coupland on Human Nature
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Douglas Coupland, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Douglas Coupland, entry #43903: "Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible."
Attributed to Douglas Coupland, entry #6650: "Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing."
7 Quotes by Douglas Coupland on Human Nature
"Fame without the money to insulate you from it is one of the most wretched human conditions possible."
"Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing."
"What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives."
"People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity."
"We are at the vanguard of adolescent protraction."
"Truly modern citizens are both charismatic and can only respond to other people with charisma. To survive, people need to become self-branding charisma robots. Yet, ironically, society mocks and punishes people who aspire to that state."
"People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber."