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“We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.”

People Life Children Evil Society Competition Good Selfishness Insanity Maturity Materialism Toys Impatience Things Brats Inflexibility

Author:Trevor D. Richardson

“I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.”

Belief Dogma Dogmatic Rigid Inflexibility

Author:William Hope Hodgson

“Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.”

Berlin Wall Inflexibility

Book:Erinnerungen

Source: Erinnerungen

“He would not bend on anything he considered a matter of principle, no matter what the possible cost to his own happiness. And with Adams, practically everything was a matter of principle.”

Principles Politicians Presidents Inflexibility

Book:John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

Source: John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

“Every age has its own separatists. They are the intransigents, the undeviating purists who have to be right whatever the cost, who would sacrifice the world rather than compromise their own righteousness.”

Author:Edmund S. Morgan