I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I don’t like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Fear is the mother of morality.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.