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All the world's a cage.
- Heanne Philips
Man, biologically considered, is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey,
and indeed the only one that preys systematically on his own species.
- William James
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
- George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
- George Bernard Shaw
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the
mental institution of the universe.
- Johann von Goethe
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
- Art Linkletter
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I
am.
- Joseph Baretti, quoted in James Boswell's Life of Johnson
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.
-John Steinbeck
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans
it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive
caterpillar.
- Chekhov
Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
- Aldous Huxley
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
- Annoymous
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
- Robert Zend
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's
head.
- Ambrose Bierce
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
- Evan Esar
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall
until his back is up against it.
- Adlai Stevenson
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but
a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like
pimples on an angel's arse?
- John Barth
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
- Charles de Gaulle
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a
desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's
souls.
- Adlai Stevenson
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get
himself envied.
- Mark Twain
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't
even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give
him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion
dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in
the sky.
- Russell Baker
Nuclear weapons could destroy all life on earth, if used properly.
- David Byrne
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it
is not utterly absurd. Indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of
mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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