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Abraham Meyerson
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Adlai Stevenson
Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Adlai Stevenson
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.
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Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Albert Camus
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.
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Albert Einstein
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
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Ambrose Bierce
Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.
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Anton Chekhov
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.
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Arthur Koestler
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.
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