Tom Robbins on Human Nature
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Tom Robbins, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Tom Robbins, entry #210325: "There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others."
Attributed to Tom Robbins, entry #15098: "Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
7 Quotes by Tom Robbins on Human Nature
"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others."
"Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
"If you didn't serve the nasty fellow , the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down."
"People of zee wurl, Relax!"
"There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition."
"I’m acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn’t be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices."