Character Quote by Arkady Strugatsky

“It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what…

— Jaroslav Hašek

“The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In…

— Arkady Strugatsky

“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or…

— Anonymous

“Most writers on the emotions and on human conduct seem to be treating rather of matters outside nature than of natural phenomena following nature's…

— Baruch Spinoza

“You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent…

— Thomas More

“I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Is the whole thing a folly and a mockery? Am I no better than a eunuch or is the proper man—the man with the…

— Ford Madox Ford

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty

“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he…

— Adam Smith

“A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES, THAT MOST RAREAND RAGIC OF…

— Alan Moore