People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.
People like you to be something, preferably what they are.
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them.
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour.
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean.
We are no better than the animals; in fact in a lot of ways we aren’t as good.
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!
This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.
The worst thing about religion was religious people.
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
