Human Nature

"No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people."

"There is something radically wrong, declares, in a system of society that functions and maintains its existence by the impetus of violence and force. He sees nothing praiseworthy in political society …"

"The truth that Dostoevsky puts in the mouth of the Grand Inquisitor is that humankind has never sought freedom, and never will. The secular religions of modern times tell us that humans yearn to be fr…"

"I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more."

"The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly."

"If you want people to do a good job, give them a good job to do — an enriched job."

"…of course, keep-fit people are no good in bed…"

"In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we…"

"In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them."

"Monotheism has manufactured a number of hate-filled words - infidel, kãfir, unbeliever, munkir, mushrik, heathen, heretic, hypocrite, polytheist, pantheist, pagan - which raise unbreakable barriers be…"

"As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do."

"Moreover, any appearance or claim by these people to be rational human beings seeking a better kind of world or society is a sham, a cover-up, to delude others, and proof only of their cleverness; the…"

"Salman Khan is probably one of the most good looking people we have in our industry."

"The path of life is one of mutual help. Participants in the great task cannot be humanity-haters. This term denoting a shameful hatred is a long one. But perhaps people will the better remember it and…"

"So, keep your powder dry and dig in for a long, fruitful life of being a writer, that storyteller around the campfire of your people and your generation. Your trade is as old as time, and your main jo…"

"Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with."

"During his last illness , when no longer able to walk, he used to be wheeled about the house in a chair, and on one occasion, when stopping, as he often did, before Mr. Fox's bust, and speaking of the…"

"Most people still steal music."

"Peter Sellers Appreciation Society"

"And to me, it's a very anti-human way to go about this. And what I mean about anti-human is even if the population is increasing, so what? So what? People aren’t bad. When did humans become a bad thin…"