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“A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.”

Book Reading Mankind Policy Ignorance Findings Mass Devil Poison Repent

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.”

May Reason Purpose Mankind Comfort Findings No Reason

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.”

Brain Mankind Creatures Findings Concern Blame Superiors Lacking Finding Someone Brain Power

Book:Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

“The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.”

Passion Mankind Findings Cease Allies Continuing Power Over Others

Book:Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

Source: Lectures on Modern History: Great Event

“The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN