Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
Lack of trust in other people increases the need for religion.
Instinct’s a funny thing.
Even the best of men can be deceived by their true nature.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage.
Man is the only creature that kills to kill.
Man cannot be both savior and oppressor… light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other.
Love and death are the great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
Human motivation can be little more than lucid greed.
People change. Bad guys reform, good guys forget what they’re fighting for. It’s just how it works.[to Donald]
Men never crave what they already have.
Insane isn’t really black or white, is it? We’re all pathological in our own way.
