Human Nature

"Racism should be viewed as an intervening variable. You give me a set of conditions and I can produce racism in any society. You give me a different set of conditions and I can reduce racism. You give…"

"Thus the whole duration of humanity, with its many sequent species and its incessant downpour of generations, is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos."

"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."

"The way we construct race in the States is so different from the way people construct race all across Latin America and the Caribbean. All of a sudden you come to the States and race is foisted upon y…"

"“Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the …"

"The marauding third world savages who terrorise people in their own homes are victims now? Tell somebody who cares."

"The organs of state must practice democratic centralism, they must rely on the masses and their personnel must serve the people."

"The day is coming when God will get the attention of all humanity—worldwide. God will shake the earth."

"The rapacious property-owning American bourgeoisie admits no limits, possesses no scruples and does not share the fears and the cowardice of our bourgeoisie. violent, absolute criminal. When they feel…"

"If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?"

"I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people …"

"The trouble in the world is nearly all due to the fact that one-half of the people are men, and the other half women."

"I have attempted to write of my long association with George Patton as fairly and as honestly as I could. General Patton was one of my staunchest friends and the most unhesitatingly loyal of my comman…"

"When you talk about a revolution, most people think violence; without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you're striving for …"

"Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers."

"I would rather paint the victims than the killers.. .When Warhol painted the killers, I painted the victims. The subjects were of poor people, banal poor dogs."

"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."

"How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?"

"atred and tribal violence is endemic to the human condition. Cain slew Abel, and it’s been downhill from there."

"The writer is of service to humankind only insofar as the writer uses the word even against his or her own loyalties, trusts the state of being, as it is revealed, to hold somewhere in its complexity …"