Man may be evil or good, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions. In short, man was often just plain stupid.
- from The Boy from the Woods book by Harlan Coben
Man may be evil or good, that wasn't the issue. The issue was that man rarely considered the consequences of his actions. In short, man was often just plain stupid.
- from The Boy from the Woods book by Harlan Coben
There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
- from To Kill A Mockingbird book by Harper Lee
The only countries in a post-2022 world that might be able to maintain an overseas empire are those that can have three things going for them: a serious cultural superiority complex, a military capable of reliably projecting power onto locations that cannot effectively resist, and lots and lots and lots and LOTS of disposable young people. The last country that boasted that combination of factors was the United States in the World War II aftermath.
- from The End of the World is Just the Beginning book by Peter Zeihan
Whosoever commands the seas commands the trade of the world; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world.
- Sir Walter Raleigh, from The Wager book by David Grann
Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.
- from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
Even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
Man is never more masculine than after the birth of his first child. Not macho. Masculine. After his firstborn, a new father's head, heart, and gut are more aligned than they have ever been.
- from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Fighting isn't hard. it's the starting and stopping that are hard. once you're actually fighting, it happens more or less instinctively. the complicated thing about fighting is daring to throw the first punch, and then, once you've won, refraining from throwing that very last one.
- from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
There may be nothing more deep-rooted and stubborn than the human tendency to look at and think of things with themselves at the center.
- from How Do You Live? book by Genzaburo Yoshino
Once it becomes acceptable to silence people under the banner of fighting hate speech, whatever speech powerful interests dislike becomes hate speech. Unfortunately, it looks like we've already opened Pandora's box.
- from Woke, Inc. book by Vivek Ramaswamy