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  1. Doris Lessing _ The Golden Notebook

    The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
    book-quotetruthmountainhumanity

  2. Irvine Welsh _ The Acid House

    This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.
    book-quotehumorhumanityjobs

  3. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
    book-quotesocietyhumanitysin

  4. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
    book-quotelifelearningmaterialism

  5. H. Rider Haggard _ She: A History of Adventure

    Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
    book-quoteknowledgelearningwisdom

  6. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
    book-quotemurdergodcycle

  7. William L. Shirer _ A Native's Return: 1945-1988

    Every person's life is of importance to himself, of course: … But in the universe of infinite space and time, it is insignificant. … Perhaps Carl Becker, the historian, and one of the most civilized men I ever knew, grasped best our piddling place in the infinite. Man {he wrote} is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him. Unparented, unassisted and undirected by omniscient or benevolent authority, he must fend for himself, and with the aid of his own limited intelligence find his way about in an indifferent universe. And in a rather savage world! The longer I lived and the more I observed, the clearer it became to me that man had progressed very little beyond his earlier savage state. After twenty million years or so of human life on this Earth, the lot of most men and women is, as Hobbes said, "nasty, brutish, and short." Civilization is a thin veneer. It is so easily and continually eroded or cracked, leaving human beings exposed for what they are: savages. What good three thousand years of so-called civilization, of religion, philosophy, and education, when … men go on torturing, killing and repressing their fellowmen?
    book-quotelifehumanity

  8. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.
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  9. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including myself.
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  10. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    It was the security man's nightmare scenario. In the face of death, why wouldn't there be riots? Why wouldn't there be killing and theft and rape? If there were no consequences – or if all the consequences were the same – then anything became possible. It was his job to expect the worst of humanity, including himself.
    book-quotehumanitysocial-psychology

  11. James S.A. Corey _ Abaddon's Gate

    Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it's a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it's a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it's a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. So here the monkeys were, poking the shiny box and making guesses about what it did.
    book-quotehumanityhuman-naturemonkeys

  12. James McBride _ The Good Lord Bird

    The old face, crinkled and dented with canals running every which way, pushed and shoved up against itself for a while, till a big old smile busted out from beneath 'em all, and his grey eyes fairly glowed. It was the first time I ever saw him smile free. A true smile. It was like looking at the face of God. And I knowed then, for the first time, that him being the person to lead the colored to freedom weren't no lunacy. It was something he knowed true inside him. I saw it clear for the first time. I knowed then, too, that he knowed what I was - from the very first.
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