It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw
Men! The only animal in the world to fear. – D.H. Lawrence
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916
Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints. – Oswald Chambers
Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. – Malcolm de Chazal
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. – Mariane Moore, “A Grave,” Collected Poems, 1951
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. – Hungarian Proverb
Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
God pulled an all-nighter on the sixth day. – Author Unknown
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. – Evan Esar
Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert
Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911
The human race is governed by its imagination. – Napoleon
