Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hell was his Heaven on Earth"; he could put up with suffering now, by contemplating the eternal punishment of his oppressors in the other world.
Friedrich NietzscheHe wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
George OrwellTags: man hypocrisy shooting-an-elephant
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
André MalrauxTags: deception man lies secrets self-awareness hiding
The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.
Gregory MaguireAnimals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
Gregory MaguireTags: man animals self-acceptance people peace
Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
علي بن أبي طالبTags: man right right-and-wrong rights ali imam-ali
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: life friends books man woman write work selfish loneliness travel anger myself greedy
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Criss JamiTags: truth honesty man lies peace war mankind lying secrecy force run dishonesty bitterness resistance repression dangerous tension pressure suppression feuds rivalry
Men argue. Nature acts.
VoltaireTags: man nature climate-change
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