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“one could starve to death on an enviable job — for mountain wind, for stars among pine trees, or the call of a wood-thrush to his mate.”

Book:Lost Island

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“When I was little, people often misread the Kanji in my name as Mon-De... So the boys flipped it around and called me De-Mon, as in The Devil. Demons plague humanity, but I wasn't doing anything wrong. Ever since, I've been uncomfortable with how people cheerfully unite against perceived enemies".”

Humanity Enemy Human Nature Perception Criticism Aliens Human Race Demon

Book:デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 4

Source: デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 4

“A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.”

Human Nature Humanity And Society

Book:Where My Heart Used to Beat

Source: Where My Heart Used to Beat

“No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.”

Politics Human Nature Arrogance

Book:The Way We Live Now

Source: The Way We Live Now

“How can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature? They appeal to different individuals, and they probably show a tendency to alternate in point of time. The Moralist and the Revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite under the Moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are are work and fresh dynamite is being tamped un place to blow Marx to the moon.”

Humor Human Nature Revolution Institutions Essays Marxism Marx Moralism

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The comfort of religion is like morphine: blissful, addictive, and built on the promise of escape from pain it helped create”

God Religion Atheism Atheist Crisis Of Faith

Author:Abyssino

“I even think that the best definition of a man is an ungrateful creature on two legs.”

Human Nature Just Too Real

Book:Notes from Underground

Source: Notes from Underground

“Desire and greed are human traits. We are the Beast. And yet.... I wish”

Human Nature

Book:Hunted

Source: Hunted

“The noble Robespierre dreams his enchanting dreams of power ... he is not content to direct the will of the masses: he wants to dominate men to their marrowbones, to transform every individual by force into his paper ideal — every country abounds in such bloody Christ-like maniacs. But I, my child, know human nature. Instead of senselessly fighting it, I pamper it. That's the secret of my power. It is enough for me to speak three wisely chosen words, and whole crowds follow me, listen to me, and adore me. — And he — at the price of horrible effort sometimes forces the people to submission ... for a short while, after which there is a reaction: ever greater fear and deadly hidden hate.”

Human Nature

Book:The Danton Case and Thermidor: Two Plays

Source: The Danton Case and Thermidor: Two Plays

“I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.”

Human Nature

Book:A Guide for the Perplexed

Source: A Guide for the Perplexed

“Alas, we are what we are, and we need the stories, we need the public transportation, the anxiety meds, the television shows by the dozens, the music in bars and restaurants saving us from the terror of silence, the everlasting promise of brown liquor, the bathrooms in national parks, and the political catchphrases we can all shout and stick to our bumpers.”

People Life Stories Human Nature

Book:Spaceman of Bohemia

Source: Spaceman of Bohemia

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